{"id":48674,"date":"2022-09-21T01:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/sep\/20\/post-your-questions-for-freida-pinto"},"modified":"2022-09-21T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:02:49","slug":"post-your-questions-for-freida-pinto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48674","title":{"rendered":"Post your questions for Freida Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actor will answer questions  on Thursday on anything from her new film Mr Malcolm\u2019s List to her career in movies such as Slumdog Millionaire<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai-born actor Freida Pinto found fame after being cast in 2008\u2019s Slumdog Millionaire: she had been working as a model for Wrigley\u2019s Chewing Gum, \u0160koda and Vodafone, and was picked by Danny Boyle to star as the love interest to British-born star Dev Patel. (Boyle, meanwhile, cast Patel on the recommendation of his daughter who had seen him [and his naked bum!] in Skins.)<\/p>\n<p>After Slumdog cleaned up at the award dos, Pinto went on to become a household name, with the unusual career trajectory for an Indian actor of having not featured in any homegrown Bollywood movies, skipping straight to Hollywood, where she\u2019s stayed ever since. She featured as James Franco\u2019s primatologist love interest in 2011\u2019s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and one of the few human characters in 2018\u2019s Jungle Book update, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. The Guardian\u2019s Peter Bradshaw described her latest film, period drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/aug\/24\/mr-malcolms-list-review-regency-romcom-served-with-cake-icing-of-irony\">Mr Malcolm\u2019s List<\/a>, as \u201cengagingly silly and self-aware\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/sep\/20\/post-your-questions-for-freida-pinto\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor will answer questions  on Thursday on anything from her new film Mr Malcolm\u2019s List to her career in movies such as Slumdog MillionaireMumbai-born actor Freida Pinto found fame after being cast in 2008\u2019s Slumdog Millionaire: she had been worki&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69,62,1191,425,1377,61,1800,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-james-bond","category-music","category-slumdog-millionaire","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thrillers","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674\/revisions\/48675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}