Freida in Interview Magazine’s November Issue

Even more magazine alerts for November! Freida Pinto’s featured in the latest issue of Interview magazine (with Ryan Gosling on the cover)! I have added a couple of stunning pictures to the gallery, the complete article (a great read!) to the press archive as well as a behind the scenes-look to the video archive! Check out all the new media by clicking on the links. Thanks to Kelly for the heads-up!

Magazine scans will be added as soon as we can get our hands on a copy. If you’d like to contribue the scans yourself; do so by sending them to freidapintofan.com@gmail.com. Full credit will be given, of course.

Scans of Freida in Blackbook’s November Issue

I have now added original hi-res scans from the November issue of Blackbook magazine. Freida Pinto looks über-beautiful in the shoot (the cover can be seen above) and the article is a great read as well. Check out the scans by clicking on the preview above, as per usual!

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Freida Pinto Covers the November Issue of Blackbook

Awesome news! Freida Pinto covers the November issue of Blackbook magazine! She looks stunning in the vintage-inspired spread and is featured with a new, very interesting interview as well. I have added the outtakes from the magazine to the gallery and the full article to the press archive.

Scans from the magazine is coming as soon as I can get my hands on a copy, and you can check out the interview at Blackbook.com or at our very own press archive. Enjoy!

In September 2008, Freida Pinto, along with a small coterie of Indian actors, arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival for the premiere of her new movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Its unveiling at Telluride the week before generated strong buzz, but not enough to ignite a storm of media interest in Canada. “There was a red carpet, one photographer, and one video camera. That’s it,” says Pinto, fondly recalling the simplicity of it all. “I thought, well, that was easy. Why was I so nervous?”

Slumdog Millionaire went on to win eight Academy Awards—including Best Picture—in 2009, becoming in the process an international phenomenon. The Dickensian fable of a Mumbai street kid who uses the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to reconnect with his true love (played by Pinto) made household names of its director, Danny Boyle, and its leads, Pinto and Dev Patel, her current boyfriend. “We were these wide-eyed babies, lost in a wonderland scenario. Danny said, ‘Enjoy this moment, because you might never get it back.’”

Two years have passed, and Pinto is back in Toronto. Looking like she just returned from a Beverly Hills shopping spree, the 26-year-old actor is clad in a gray Acne blazer, a black top from BCBG, and ash-gray jeans from Armani Exchange. She reclines on a sofa in a penthouse suite at Sutton Place, the hotel’s complimentary cotton slippers keeping her feet warm.

Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows that surround us, Toronto glitters with city lights, but also with movie stars who are here to sell their work—and themselves. Pinto was especially busy this week trying to launch herself as a legitimate, working actor, but the festival publicity grind has left her sapped. She’s reluctant to leave the room, and cancels our dinner reservation at celebrity clubhouse Bistro 990 across the street.

Pinto debuted two films at the festival, Julian Schnabel’s Miral, in which she plays the title character, and Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, in which she stars as the exotic object of Josh Brolin’s extramarital desire. What was once, for her, a paparazzi ghost town has become a blitzkrieg of flashbulbs and screaming fans. The thought of her long flight home to India tomorrow doesn’t make matters easier.

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Doha Tribeca Film Festival – Promoting ‘Miral’, Part 3

Here’s a new interview with Freida Pinto from the ongoing Doha Tribeca Film Festival. She talks about why she did Miral and the importance of the movie. It’s a great read so be sure to read the entire article right away! I’ve featured some tidbits from it below, but I strongly recommend you to read the full piece.

A one-film wonder she isn’t. A one-woman force she is.

Just for your safety, sanity and general well-being heed this advice. If you ever have the opportunity to sit down in a room with Freida Pinto, don’t let her soft facial features and girly exterior fool you. Touch on topics including war, humanity and her future children and prepare to be hit by a one-woman force to be reckoned with. The girl has opinions and she isn’t afraid to share them.

“I was born in a free country. Free to have education,” she said, perched so precariously on the edge of a sofa I was afraid she might fall off. “Sometimes you have to look at what happened in the past and know it shouldn’t happen in the future. My grandparents and history books will tell me that through war a lot of people have lost their lives. Many of them so young.”

The intensity growing in Pinto’s eyes as she spoke, she said: “When that happens, if you have any humanity in you, you know that when a child dies you are really killing the future. I think that was enough for me to think that when I have a child I don’t want my child to be born in a world where he has to think, ‘Do I have the right to an education, to say what I want?’”

Read the entire article at Gulf News!

Freida Talks About Working with Woody Allen

So far, Woody Allen has directed four actresses to four Academy Awards. That fact wasn’t lost on Freida Pinto and Lucy Punch, who play the Woodman’s latest good girl and bad girl, respectively, in his new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

Opening Wednesday, the comedic romance continues Allen’s transferring of his Gotham sensibilities to international locales. Here it’s London, as Dia (Pinto) moves into a flat across from Roy and Sally (Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts) and inadvertently entices Roy, a would-be novelist. Meanwhile, Charmaine (Punch) is a call girl married to Sally’s father (Anthony Hopkins) and living a life free from self-doubt — a trait every other character has in spades. It’s the kind of melancholy roundelay Allen perfected in classics like “Manhattan,” “Hannah” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

FREIDA PINTO

How well-versed were you in Woody Allen films when you auditioned?
Very. Back in college I studied literature, and we had a lot of his plays as part of our curriculum. I was really aware of his work by the time I went in for the audition. I really don’t know what I did during the audition, but the fact that I got the part probably means that I did something right! But I think that what actually happens is that when you start to film, everything starts fresh. You cannot predict what will happen and what his style of directing will be like. Everyone told me that he was going to be very quiet and very elusive and that he was probably not going to talk to me. But that wasn’t the case at all.

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Freida is the Object of Desire in “…Tall Dark Stranger”

When it comes to acting roles, Freida Pinto has yet to meet her tall, dark stranger. In Woody Allen’s wry comedy You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, the stranger means different things to different characters: handsome lover to one, possibly death to another.

Freida, at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival to promote the movie, said her metaphorical stranger is not being able to live a fantasy such as working with Allen and co-star Josh Brolin.

“I was sick to my stomach knowing I had two amazing talents – Josh Brolin, Woody Allen — working with me,” said the Indian former model, who got her big break in Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. “I really spent my first days being nervous and being very petrified about which way I was going — Was I going to get fired? It was this immense amount of pressure and stress,” she told Reuters in an interview.

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Freida Pinto Hoping to “Open Doors”

During the TIFF, Freida revealed to The Press Association that she is hoping to open doors for other Indian actors. The actress – who found fame in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and now has roles in movies including Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and Julian Schnabel’s Miral - aims to work in English-language productions around the world, wherever she finds the right roles.

The 25-year-old said: “I am the minority, as one might call it, in the film industry out here, so I have to be very careful as to what films I take up. Coming from India, we don’t have too many Indian stars here. … Some really talented people have tried who’ve never really made it, and I feel this is a brilliant opportunity for me to open doors even to them, not just for myself.”

She continued: “So I’m really excited that it’s happening at a time when I like to use this word ‘colour-blind’. I think everybody, bit by bit, is becoming colour-blind, and I think that’s really nice, because none of the films that I’ve done so far have focused on ethnicity as far as I’m concerned. And that makes me really happy.”

Woody Allen: “Pinto Perfect for New Role”

Woody Allen has claimed that Freida Pinto was perfectly cast for her role in his upcoming film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. In the movie, Pinto plays a young art gallery assistant who begins an affair with a married writer (Josh Brolin).

The AP reports that Allen told journalists at the Toronto International Film Festival that the character required an actress that is just as beautiful as Naomi Watts, who plays the writer’s wife. “We wanted somebody that he looked out the window at who was an obscure object of desire. We figured, who could it be?” he said. “He’s married to Naomi Watts, who is so beautiful and such a wonderful actress.” He continued: “What could lure a guy from Naomi Watts? Nothing really.”

Allen added that a close-up of Pinto early in the film confirmed that he was right to select her for the role.  “You see that face close up over the table, and that face is pulverising. She’s so beautiful.”

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger will debut in US cinemas on September 22.