Author: Luke Goodsell Source: RottenTomatoes.com, November 8 2011 This was your first really big-budget film — what drew you to it? Freida Pinto: It was actually Tarsem. I had never done a big-budget film before, so I was not sure what to expect and what not to expect, but that becomes partly the allure, as [...]
Author: Kevin Williamson Source: Jam! Showbiz, November 8 2011 Plenty of potential jobs make actors want to roll their eyes. But for Freida Pinto, it wasn’t that the role of virgin oracle Phaedra in Immortals didn’t appeal to her (well, actually, it didn’t), but because she reasoned: Isn’t that how all oracles behave in movies? [...]
Author: Parimal M. Rohit Source: Buzzinebollywood.com, November 8 2011 Despite her relatively “brief” appearance in Slumdog Millionaire, Freida Pinto has wowed film fans across the United States with her charming personality and stunning good looks. After taking on a supporting role in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, the lead female role [...]
Author: N/A Source: Flicksandbits.com, November 1 2011 Visionary director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) and producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300) and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny in ‘Immortals,’ a stylish and spectacular 3-D adventure. As a power-mad king razes ancient Greece in search of [...]
Author: Tim Blanks Magazine: Interview (US), issue August 2011 Freida Pinto walks into a bar. No, that’s not the beginning of a joke, it’s actually a succinct observation about the fact that she is walking completely alone—no minder, no publicity—into the bar and restaurant of the Soho Hotel in London. Sure, it’s a late June [...]
Author: Laurie Sandell Magazine: Glamour (US), issue May 2011 India-born actress Freida Pinto, 26, became instantly A-list with the success of 2008’s Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire; now, this spring, she stars in artist Julian Schnabel’s Miral, with two more big flicks to come. On the phone from her hometown of Mumbai—the one place where she can still [...]
Author: Georgia Dehn Magazine: The Telegraph (UK), issue November 20 2010 Freida Pinto points out of the window of her hotel room in London at two maintenance men abseiling down the side of a building opposite. ‘That would be strange, if the paparazzi got up there,’ she says. ‘But you know what, it is possible. [...]
Author: N/A Source: Stylist.co.uk, December 2010 In an extended version of the exclusive interview in this week’s issue, Slumdog’s Freida Pinto, 26, talks long-distance love by Skype and her new film Miral Did Slumdog change your life? It gave me the exposure I needed for people to give me a chance. It gave me an [...]
Author: Michael Martin Magazine: Interview (US), issue November 2010 Freida Pinto’s story reads like an old Hollywood invention gone global: In 2007, director Danny Boyle cast her to play the female lead in Slumdog Millionaire, a tragicomic romance set on the streets of Mumbai that fought the odds and scrapped its way to win best [...]
Author: Ben Barna Magazine: Blackbook (US), issue November 2010 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 [...]
