Deepika Padukone has been busy as a bee and is currently wrapping up a multitude of projects including The Intern remake, Nag Ashwin’s multilingual movie with Prabhas and playing Draupadi in an upcoming movie on Mahabharata, she is also currently flming for Siddharth Anand’s Pathan along with co-stars Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham.

In a conversation with BOF, Deepika Padukone opened up on facing stereotype racism in Hollywood and said, “You are the scientist. You are a computer geek. You are the taxi driver. You are the therapist. You are the owner of a convenience store. I’ve had my fans ask me why I’ve not done more [global] movies.”

She went on to add, “But that’s not what I’m settling for, because I am — and we are — so much more than that. It would upset me every time I went to the US. Some of the things that are said and some of the things that are done just [make it] so obvious that people don’t know the world outside of the world that they live in.”

In fact, Deepika Padukone also shared an anecdote about an English actor who complimented her for her English at one of the Vanity Fair parties and said, “I know this actor… I met him at this Vanity Fair party, and he said ‘Hey by the way, you speak English really well.’ I didn’t even realise what that meant. And when I came back I said, ‘What do you mean you speak English really well?’ Did he have this notion that we don’t speak English?’”

Deepika Padukone on bagging Hollywood debut

Deepika, in 2017, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she spoke about how she got finalized for the role of Serena Unger in xXx: Return of Xander Cage.

She said, “I actually auditioned for Fast and Furious 7 about two-three years ago but for whatever reason that didn’t work out. And I think people remember me from that audition… and then, about a year ago, I get a call from Paramount Pictures saying they are casting for this film and so I flew down and met the director DJ Caruso.”

She added, “Vin Diesel found out in Los Angeles that I was in Toronto and said he wanted me to come and see him. So, overnight I flew down to LA to see Vin. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, we are doing this 45-minute professional photoshoot and I was like, ‘What is going on?”