Priyanka Chopra says her acting career was a "fluke".
Priyanka Chopra
The 'White Tiger' star was expecting to go into academic studies and had considered being an engineer until she won a beauty pageant and her acting career took off.
She said: "I didn’t know I could be an actor. I didn’t know that was a professional choice that could be made. I come from a very academic family. My parents are both physicians so I was expected to go into academics. I was smart. I wanted to be an engineer ...
"Then the entertainment business sort of happened to me by fluke. I was part of a beauty pageant and I won Miss World at 2000 and I started getting movie offers back in India. I didn’t know what it was all about so my acting school was on set. I learned everything that I did by being thrown into the deep end and I suddenly realised that I was really good at it."
And the 38-year-old actress has heaped praise on her husband Nick Jonas for supporting her career, revealing he told her she "may be the first Jonas to win an Oscar".
Speaking about her supportive husband, she shared to Variety's Awards Circuit podcast: "He just doesn’t do anything badly. It’s insane and it drives me crazy. It’s like everything you do is great … He was like, 'You may be the first Jonas to win an Oscar.'"
Meanwhile, Priyanka has cherished her time in lockdown with Nick.
She said: "It's great because we still like each other. That's important. We both have had such individual careers that I don't think we would've had six months with each other ever, so that's really a blessing. I was really happy to be able to have that time with each other."
Tagged in Priyanka Chopra Nick Jonas