Priyanka Chopra Jonas Talks The Bluff Family Indian Cinema

We are back with an international superstar actor producer and author Priyanka Chopra Jonas played Alex in the fear of the thriller series Quantico becoming the first ever South Asian actor to lead a broadcast TV show she went on to star alongside Idris Elba and John Cena and the action comedy heads of state. Well in her new film the bluff she plays herself a former pirate on a quest to save her family while confronting her complicated past take a look. It was a horrible man and how you so good at killing people. His name is Francisco Connor. He was a colonizer for the East India Trading Company. And the Tories talking to you like the ones in my book no. Those are tales. The real pirates and murderers. Not here. Welcome back. Thank you. There's a lot of action, but they're also some of the historical undertones as well and not only by the way are you starring in it also produced her on it as well as what made you sign on. Well first of all like you know, I think pirate movies we've gotten so used to seeing the Disney version of them and and I love them, I'm a huge fan of the Pirates of Caribbean series. But I had no idea what the real life of pirates was like to this movie came across my desk when I read it, I don't even know female pirates existed like history is erased these iconic female pirates that existed around the world that she and she or Mary Reid. So I was very excited about the fact that I got to play a pirate not just pirate adjacent. Yeah. Yeah. And also it's based in themes of colonialism so as an Indian person like that really hit home for me as well. And it's a 19th century movie swashbuckling is you know you don't you don't get to use that that that word much any and we know you've done these action movies before but this one is a little different. I mean you're doing a lot of action but you've got to do some swordplay and so yes, this is the first time you did extensive blade work, I'm not very. Yes, I haven't done a lot of blade work in my my career before maybe back in the day 15 years ago or something so the first time I was picking up blades and Carl urban my co-actor we'll have this big duel with was in the Lord of the Rings. And so he knows his blades so I really had to like level up so I trained for months extensively to make sure that you know we could be. We don't have to happen during the training. You still buy your fingers, I have my fingers, but I have lots of scars in the middle of them, but you know that we're going to do yeah exactly if you're going to do an action movie about it have a few bunks here and there going all in. Speaking of going all in your fashion, how much fun are you having on this press tour because you are really embracing the pirate core in the most fabulous way. It's just so much fun. I think you know if you're going to do a method dressing it should be like to a movie which is a pirate theme, you know it's it's not a theme have fun with it. You know promote a movie would make it fashion. If you had a favorite look. I think my premier outfit was one of my favorites is the or one was really amazing because off the runway. But I think the premier outfit because it was the cure us that I wore in the movie was part of my costume from the movie. And it was a Caribbean designer who decides more than there's a little who did the rest of it so it was very intentional and meaningful so is my favorite, I love this to make a sorry. But this this month, you're at your husband, Nikki releases first solo project to think about 5 years. And he's talks a lot about being a husband sings about being a father as well was their song on the album that that touched you more than than the others are. I mean this album is really special. I think Nick really poured poured his heart into it and I mean it's very hard to be so vulnerable when you've been so public for such a long time and I think that was just amazing. But there's a song called princesses which he wrote about our daughter and about her this and her relationship with the doorman and like how they play we play princesses together and she's a she's a definite princess. And that if you listen to the words is is really special. And you're making a big return to Indian cinema. It was something you said it's kind of a career defining film for you. Well, I I'm a big admirer of the filmmaker, his name is SS Rajamouli and he's you know one of the best filmmakers we have in India, he makes Telugu movies is known for his large imagination and why I think this will be defining I think we defining for Indian cinema to because I think the ambition is amazing and the reaction so far has been great. So it's a year later where April 2027, but I think yeah, I'm speaking in Telugu which I haven't done and I don't even speak the language, I don't understand it's of the phonetically memorize my words wow so added layer challenge. Yeah, yes, yes, of course that and that sort fighting you learn new languages, I mean it's a good game where you get to learn new skills that my job as an actor is like that's the one take good take away. I think thank you thank you so much of the bluff by the way the bluff is available to stream on prime video right now.