I am really nervous about Quantico: Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra has been shuttling between India and Canada, where she is currently shooting for her maiden American television show, Quantico. The actor says the show has turned into something bigger than she thought.

For a few weeks now, actor Priyanka Chopra has been shuttling between India and Canada, where she is currently shooting for her maiden American television show, Quantico. She’s exhausted; her tiredness is evident in her voice, as she chats with us from Montreal. “It is tiring,” she says. But she bounces back almost immediately, as she apologises for not “being so upbeat”, as she’s getting her makeup done (for the show’s shoot).

Priyanka tweeted this picture while shooting for Quantico in Montreal.

Her TV show is set to premiere next week. Like all first-timers, she admits she’s nervous, “really nervous”. “I don’t know what else to feel. I feel this way about all my movies, except that this (the show) will happen every week. So I think I’ll be nervous before every episode is aired. It is a weird, new feeling. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens,” says Priyanka.

A still from Quantico.

A few days ago, while watching the rushes of the show, realisation finally dawned on her. Now she knows it’s a lot more than what she had expected it to be when she signed on the dotted line. “I’m really proud of it. I’m someone who’s really into pop-culture and mass entertainment, and this is exactly that. It’s not a show that says, ‘Oh! I’m art, so take me seriously.’ At the same time, it’s not a show that takes your intelligence for granted. Basically, it’s commercial cinema,” says Priyanka, before laughing out loud.