Freida On My Mind ; How Did the Mumbai-Born Actress Freida Pinto Shoot From Unknown to the Star of the Year's Smash Hit Movie, Slumdog Millionaire? A Convent Education and, Discovers a Clearly Smitten Piers Hernu, a Great Deal of Charm... [Eire Region]

Summary

---

eight months have passed since I first interviewed Freida Pinto - - before the release of the runaway hit Slumdog Millionaire -- and she says that the intervening time has been the most hectic of her life.

The beautiful 25-year-old actress has shot from anonymity to stardom in those few short months but still, rather hearteningly, hasn't forgotten my supposed resemblance to one of her fellow actors: 'Aha, Robert De Niro!' she exclaims, grinning broadly as she sashays gracefully into the hotel room in London's Soho. I didn't look like him then and I don't look like him now, but if the compliment's meant to charm and disarm me, it works.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Freida On My Mind ; How Did the Mumbai-Born Actress Freida Pinto Shoot From Unknown to the Star of the Year's Smash Hit Movie, Slumdog Millionaire? A Convent Education and, Discovers a Clearly Smitten Piers Hernu, a Great Deal of Charm... [Eire Region]

Simply dressed in jeans and a white blouse, the Bombay-born actress is much more confident than at our last meeting -- which is hardly surprising given the publicity tours since the triumphant eight Oscars for Slumdog. The downside has been intense m...

See the full content of this document

---