But she wasn't answering for just anyone, not even Brad Pitt -she turned down the chance to star in 'Troy' because it 'involved a lot of lovemaking scenes that I wasn't comfortable with.'Įven though Rai felt 'quite convinced' that her audience wouldn't welcome a lip-lock from their favourite actress, she decided to try it first in a Bollywood film to 'see if all my doubts are true, and they were. Watch Live TV On the latest episode of In Da Club, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, In an EXCLUSIVE interview with India Today, speaks about her Ae Dil Hai Mushkil character, doing intimate scenes on screen, her husband Abhishek's acting, US President-elect Donald Trump and demonetisation. See more: Jay-Z's adorable subway conversation with Ellen GrossmanĪround the time Rai appeared in one of her first English-language films, the hit UK musical 'Bride and Prejudice' in 2004, she became a hot commodity and Hollywood came knocking.
'I was like, 'Wow, I'm just an actor, doing my job, and here I am being asked to offer an explanation for a couple of seconds in a two, three hour piece of cinema,'' Rai said, according to the Daily Mail. In a new interview with Al Jazeera, Rai said that after the film came out, she got 'legal notices' from Indian citizens who wrote things like, 'You are iconic, you're an example to our girls you have led your life in such an exemplary manner, they're not comfortable with you doing this on screen so why did you?'
