Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra is heading to American television with a lead role in the ABC drama Quantico.
“Wow. I’m still reeling,” she said on Monday night at a party to celebrate the presentations in New York this week where networks unveil new programming to advertisers.
Quantico was “my first pick out of everything ABC sent me ... and I got it, so I was like, ‘and it got picked up,’ so it all happened so fast. I just hope it’s amazing and people love it.”
Chopra plays an FBI trainee at Quantico Base in Virginia.
“All of [the FBI agents] have secret pasts and something happens where one of us is blamed and then I have to find out who did it,” she laughed, adding that there’s “a lot of drama and all the fun, of course.”
Chopra, 32, is a former Miss World. She has acted in over 40 Bollywood films since her 2002 debut and is now gearing up for this year’s most anticipated romantic drama Dil Dhadakne Do, which releases in the UAE on June 4.
“American TV is at the best place it has ever been. It has incredible content,” she said.
“I binge watch TV shows when I’m doing hair and makeup, and I just think that all [American] shows that are coming out are so different — so much variety and there’s so many different kinds of people on it that the uniqueness of each show is amazing.”
Chopra, who will continue to make Bollywood movies, said she knows her fans in India are excited because “they’ve trended Quantico worldwide like five times.”
Chopra, who is expected to appear at the inaugural Arab Indo Bollywood Awards in Dubai on May 29, is the quintessential risk taker. She is one of the few actresses who has the box-office clout and charisma to take a film to the finish line without the help of a big Bollywood actor. From playing a determined boxer in Mary Kom to an ambitious man-eating businesswoman in Aitraaz, Chopra has done it all. The face of Guess campaign has also attempted to break into the US music pop scene by rapping along with Pitbull for her single Exotic.
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