Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been seen in Hollywood films like Bride and Prejudice, The Mistress of Spices, The Last Legion, The Pink Panther 2.
Did you know she once had the opportunity to work with Brad Pitt for the ‘Troy’ movie but she turned it down?
The green-eyed beauty was reportedly approached for the role of Briseis, which eventually ended up being played by Rose Byrne. In an old throwback interview, Aishwarya had opened up on her reason for rejecting the role – she had committed to a lot of films in Bollywood and moreover, there were so many things she was not sure she would be comfortable with in the long run.
She said – “Films in the West and here work differently in the sense that they meet you and then they say ‘green lit’ and they lock you off for a period of time because of the insurance. The way the entire film schedule is, you are locked off, which was very new for me.”
Adding further, she commented, “When Troy was spoken about, forget on the script level, they were saying at least 6-9 months to lock off (the schedule) because it is a huge film. We were like ‘wow.’ But obviously, we have a way of looking at it like – this is your part…(expressing that her part was not big enough) and to lock off that kind of time when I had films here I was committed to, I couldn’t get myself to kick that to the curb.”
“I heard interviews of a lot of my seniors saying there is a glass ceiling to break and it cannot be broken. They believed it cannot happen (here). But you are like – I know it can happen and I could be the one making that difference if I want to but there are so many things I am not sure I will be comfortable with in the long run,” The Ae Dil Hai Mushkil actress said.
“It could be a point proven, I might not be comfortable with it. So, I walked away from a lot of projects. I could see how it would have panned out.”
On the work front, Aishwarya was last seen in 2018 film Fanney Khan. She will next be featuring in Mani Ratnam’s period drama Ponniyin Selvan.