![]() ![]() Her international career includes roles in big-ticket productions such as Baywatch, The White Tiger and The Matrix Resurrections. She’s played a runway model in Fashion (2008), boxer Mary Kom in the biopic of the same name (2014) and a love-struck Peshwa’s first wife in Bajirao Mastani (2015). Chopra Jonas has worked in more than 50 films in India. Within the bubble, there were other pressures. “You couldn’t meet anyone outside of your work for days.” Chopra Jonas stars alongside Richard Madden in Citadel. “It was emotionally very draining, being away from your family, in a bubble,” Chopra Jonas recalls. Chopra Jonas had just finished working on The Matrix Resurrections (2021) and for the movie Love Again (releasing later this month) before getting started on Citadel. Citadel was shot in 2021, during Covid, with teams working within closed networks to limit the spread of the virus. What she wasn’t prepared for was how demanding the shooting schedules would be. The scene does not appear in the final edit.Ĭhopra Jonas had expected the role to be physically demanding. “I was fine, except hair doesn’t grow on that spot anymore,” she says. I didn’t want to do all of it all over again the next day.” So, she called for surgical glue, closed up the wound and went on filming for the day. “I was muddy and disgusting,” Chopra Jonas says. They still had four more shots to go, but were advised to end the shoot. “The entire set was stunned,” she recalls. Instead, it hit her face, blood quickly covering her eyes. In a particular shot, she was supposed to land on the ground, while the camera landed just a little above her head. She got it while shooting an action scene, fighting five men, on a rainy day, in a dense forest. Chopra Jonas points to a scar on her left eyebrow. Some signs of that action are hard to miss. I didn’t want to see any of it.” Priyanka Chopra Jonas says, “Every time i work outside of India, I feel like I’m carrying the onus of the industry that taught me everything.” (Photographer: Greg Williams Art Director: Mia Birchall Hair: Sam McKnight: Make-up: Georgina Graham Styling: Rebecca Corbin-Murray Location: Bulgari hotel, London Outfit: Alaia) “I didn’t go to the gym for five months after the show. ![]() “I wanted to show up and have my character have as much agency as any other character in the show,” she says. “They wanted to achieve stunts and fight sequences that you may not see women do that much.” So Chopra Jonas trained six days a week and for one-and-a-half years straight. The Russo Brothers, Anthony and Joseph, who produced the series, wanted to keep it visceral, she says. ![]() Local instalments in India, Italy and Mexico are being planned, expanding the Citadel universe.Īnd Chopra Jonas, 40, is at the centre of it all, wielding guns, knives, even red lipstick, as a deadly weapon. But the action thriller cost $300 million to make, is streaming around the world and has become the network’s most popular series after The Rings of Power. Citadel, which debuted late last month and also stars Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci, is only six episodes long. But the line could very well apply to Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who plays Sinh.īecause Chopra Jonas, who debuted on American TV with the thriller Quantico barely eight years ago, is in the biggest league of the moment. The question is asked, softly, calculatedly, by Nadia Sinh, among the last surviving members of the international spy network, Citadel, in Prime Video’s web series of the same name. “Do I look like a woman who plays in the minor leagues?” Priyanka Chopra Jonas is at the centre of the action thriller, Citadel, which cost $300 million to make. ![]()
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