Priyanka Chopra was horrified after a director requested to see her underwear credit:Bang Showbiz

Priyanka Chopra felt ‘dehumanised’ when a director requested to see her underwear on set.

The 40-year-old actress was working on a project early on in her acting career where she had to play a seductive character and recalled the unnamed director of the movie making sure that the camera could see her underwear, claiming that ‘no-one’ would come to see the movie otherwise.

She told The Zoe Report: ‘I’m undercover, I’m seducing the guy—obviously that’s what girls do when they’re undercover.But I’m seducing the guy and you have to take off one piece of clothing [at a time]. I wanted to layer up. The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I need to see her underwear. Otherwise why is anybody coming to watch this movie? It was such a dehumanizing moment.’

The ‘Citadel’ actress – who is now married to former Disney Channel star Nick Jonas and has 16-month-old daughter Malti Marie with him – went on to explain that the alleged incident made her feel as if she was ‘not important’ in her job and eventually quit after just two days on the set.

She added: ‘It was a feeling of, ‘I’m nothing else outside of how I can be used, my art is not important, what I contribute is not important. I just couldn’t look at him every day.’

Priyanka also added that it was difficult for her to break into American movies because she was forever considered a Bollywood actress.

She said: ‘People didn’t want to take meetings with me because they thought I was a Bollywood actor and I couldn’t do mainstream American movies. I had been on the cover of this [fashion] magazine six times in India and they wouldn’t take a meeting with me in America. Because they were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what we’ll do with her.’’
Priyanka Chopra reveals film director demanded to see her underwear, causing her to quit

Nick Jonas and Chopra were married in 2018, with ceremonies held in India and the US

Priyanka Chopra is reflecting upon her time as an actress, detailing a moment where she felt her boundaries were crossed.

An India native, Chopra’s career accelerated after she won the Miss World 2000 pageant. She began starring in Bollywood films, and was hired to work with a director she was unfamiliar with. ‘This may have been 2002 or ’03,’ she told The Zoe Report.

‘I’m undercover, I’m seducing the guy — obviously that’s what girls do when they’re undercover,’ she explained of her character. ‘But I’m seducing the guy and you have to take off one piece of clothing [at a time]. I wanted to layer up. The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I need to see her underwear. Otherwise why is anybody coming to watch this movie?’’

‘He didn’t say it to me,’ she recalled of the heartbreaking moment. ‘He said it to the stylist in front of me. It was such a dehumanizing moment.’

Before making the departure to the United States and Hollywood, Priyanka Chopra was an esteemed Bollywood actress. (Franco Origlia/WireImage)

‘It was a feeling of, ‘I’m nothing else outside of how I can be used, my art is not important, what I contribute is not important,” she remembered thinking of herself.

Chopra said she continued working for two more days, ultimately walking off the project. Supported by her late father, Chopra chose to pay back the production team all that was previously spent on filming.

‘I just couldn’t look at him every day,’ the actress, 40, said of the unnamed director.

A representative for the actress did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Priyanka Chopra recalls that when her career in Bollywood was beginning in the early 2000s, she had an unpleasant encounter with a director. (SEBASTIAN D’SOUZA/AFP)

Several years later, Chopra would eventually transition from Bollywood to Hollywood, a move she says was challenging. She is now married to musician Nick Jonas. The two share daughter Malti, 1.

‘People didn’t want to take meetings with me because they thought I was a Bollywood actor and I couldn’t do mainstream American movies,’ she said of her pivot to the United States.

‘I had been on the cover of this [fashion] magazine six times in India and they wouldn’t take a meeting with me in America. Because they were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what we’ll do with her.’’

Today, Chopra is one of the highest-paid Indian actresses in Hollywood.

Priyank Chopra has been married to musician Nick Jonas since 2018. They had two ceremonies: one in India and one in the United States. (Karwai Tang/WireImage)

‘I was 17 years old when I started doing this. I’ve been picked apart — my actions, decisions have been scrutinized,’ she said while acknowledging she created a different public and private personality for herself.

‘I’ve learned how to protect myself by building barriers and walls,’ she added, ‘[but] now that I’ve done this for long enough, the lines are blurring for me. The public person and the real person are kind of becoming the same.’

‘I’m more comfortable talking about myself to you than I would have been five years ago. I was a lot more guarded,’ Chopra admitted, ‘Maybe it’s maturity, maybe it’s coming into my own, finding a confidence in yourself and not seeking. I’m still figuring that out.’