Deepika Padukone on Cannes Jury Experience: ‘The Palais Gives Me Goosebumps’ (EXCLUSIVE)
22.05.2022 - 17:23
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Top Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, who also has a Hollywood presence (“xXx: Return of Xander Cage”), is having the time of her life serving on the Cannes jury.“It gives me goosebumps every single time I walk into the Palais and we leave – it gives me goosebumps because every single person on that seat is there to celebrate cinema,” Padukone told Variety. “You might love it, you might hate it, but everyone’s there just rooting for film, rooting for that experience. Everybody’s so disciplined, everyone is seated on time, everyone’s phones are switched off.
Everyone waits for the end credits to happen. And everyone’s like clapping to the end. And everybody stands up.”Padukone was familiar with the work of some of her fellow jurors, including Asghar Farhadi and Rebecca Hall, but not all.
“I wasn’t entirely familiar with with all of them, as is the case with all of the jurors,” says Padukone. “And I think what all of us, which we discovered after we met the first evening, was to actually read up on our fellow jury members and watch some of their work. So even when you deliberate, you understand where they’re coming from, or what is the kind of cinema that that speaks to them and so on.”The actor has been a regular face on the Cannes red carpet endorsing global brands for years.
From being a promising badminton player to a model to an actor and now to the Cannes jury has been quite a journey for Padukone. She says that she finds her journey fascinating when she takes pause to look back at it.“Models have always been written off as people who cannot act, either you’re a model or you’re an actor, and the two things in people’s minds cannot coexist. So from beginning my journey like that, to making my debut,
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