Author: Krista Smith Magazine: Vanity Fair (US), issue March 2009 Age: 24. Provenance: Mumbai. Catapulted to stardom as… Latika, the irresistible love interest in Danny Boyle’s Golden Globe–winning Slumdog Millionaire, which was set—and filmed—in her native city. “Bombay is literally the third character in the film, and a very important one,” says Pinto, a former [...]
Author: Akshay Bhansali Source: MTV.com, February 17 2009 In just six short months, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have gone from relative obscurity to patting Jon Stewart’s shoulder and gleefully getting down Bollywood-style with Ellen DeGeneres — all a byproduct of the success of their feature-film acting debuts in “Slumdog Millionaire.” In fact, the journey [...]
Author: Booth Moore Source: LATimes.com, February 15, 2009 A black SUV sidles up to the curb on Pioneer Boulevard and out climbs Freida Pinto in Chanel shades and a royal blue Moschino dress, with her makeup artist, the makeup artist’s assistant and her publicist in tow. It’s quite an entourage for sleepy Artesia, home to [...]
Author: Chris Mooney Magazine: Arena (UK), issue February 2009 “At first I thought it was all jokes. Why would Danny Boyle come to India to shoot a film in the first place, and then audition me?” Freida Pinto is sitting with Arena in a freezing Shoreditch flad on a dark Friday night, having just posed [...]
