The "Immortal" Beauty of Freida Pinto

When you say tea, the next thing that comes to mind is a queen.

Prince Harry's actually in town. I'm having tea with him. But I heard he has a girlfriend already. That's fine.

I have a feeling he did make an exception for you, though. The girlfriend would be done. Hey everyone, Nikki Novak here in the Young Hollywood Studio with Frida Pinto. Hello. Hello, Frida. So, I heard that years ago, actually, I don't know when it was, somebody came up to you on the street and said in Hindi, you're going to have something huge happen in your life. Because you play an oracle and you can sort of see the future. Did that really happen?

It was not uh on the street, but it was at an event. Uh I used to work for this event management company, and I was a freelancer actually for the company. And there was a a host in Hindi, and there was a compare in English. And that was me. And he at the end of the show he came and said, I you don't know it yet, but I know something amazing is going to happen to you. And I was like, oh, yeah, whatever. And I went home saying, I'm with a crazy man today. And he said this, but you know what? I I guess he kind of

Was it before Slumdog or before that?

Oh, way, way, way before that. Yeah.

Maybe he was trying to hit on you.

No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't.

You could you couldn't blame him. I can tell that. That's the bit that I can tell when somebody

Yes. No, he wasn't hitting on me.

How can you tell?

I don't know, body language.

Right. What would be the best with you? Just being themselves?

Just being themselves and just trying not to be something that they think would impress me.

I know you're like, you're kind of known to be kind of like a fashion maven and you've sort of been like on all these best dressed lists. Do you do you like it? Are you into fashion? Are you into all that?

I'd be lying if I said I'm not into fashion. I enjoy wearing clothes and I like knowing what's um what the new trends are, but I don't make that my entire life. No make-up. Very minimal make-up. You don't need it. I think yeah. So, I do not like the fuss of taking make-up off as much as it's fun putting it on, but I know. So, I kind of try and keep it as minimal as possible.

Exactly. So, in Immortals, you had some pretty amazing costumes. And make-up.

Stop the past. The gods have given me vision. Why can I not change the future? You can. Gods chose well. And I heard that the corset, at one point it was so tight that they had to like arrange it. So it would be a little bit looser. They had to they had to find a technique to have it on, but let me breathe. Breathing is important. Passing out on set is never good. So they kind of found a way to kind of loosen the straps at the back and in scenes that were extreme close-ups I would have it on back for because what Eiko wanted us to have uh, Athena and I, um, very, very small waists and nice accentuated hips. So the corset had to be

You were allowed to have hips.

Well, it's it's it's Eiko and she what's amazing about her is her idea of female sensuality is very feminine. And that's what's amazing about having, you know, someone to work with. She wants women to look like women.

Exactly. But the men didn't get it have it so lucky on this film. It was like an ampfest.

Honestly, in the film you see that Henry's got probably the best body in the film, but that's because he spent a lot of time working on his character and and the brief that he was given was eight-pack and not six-pack. And so it's a new standard in Hollywood. Now six-pack is now not enough. Now you actually need

Yeah, and very little body fat.

So he had to work the hardest, but when he first came out his reveal, even the guys in the audience, I saw the movie, the guys in the audience were like,

So, we have a little a little quiz for you. Just sort of because because you're so well-traveled our first question to you is your favorite city.

I've I've had a couple of favorite places. Uh I mean, I love London. It's one of my favorite places to be um, be it us and I'm filming or you know, just for a holiday. But uh, in terms of really historically having an enriching trip and having really good food, Florence.

Oh, well that leads us to our next question. Favorite meal.

E&O in in London.

E&O. Oh, E&O. What kind of food is it?

Eastern and Oriental. That's what E&O stands for and it's Pan-Asian food, but what is impressive about this particular restaurant is that they get it right every time.

If you could have tea with two people, who would it be?

Tea, Queen. Queen. I mean, when you say tea, the next thing that comes to mind is a queen.

Have you met the Queen?

Oh, I haven't.

Would you like to? Okay. Uh Prince Harry and Prince William.

Prince Harry's actually in town. I'm having tea with him. But I heard he has a girlfriend already. That's fine.

I have a feeling he did make an exception for you though. The girlfriend would be done. And actually I heard you would love to work with Johnny Depp. Is that true?

Uh well, I say that all the time. I've got loads of people I'd love to work with. Um he's just an amazing actor. For me it's more it's less of oh, I have a crush on Johnny Depp. I really want to work with him, but it's more like as an actor I think I'd learn a lot from him.

Well, thank you, Frida. Thank you. So nice to chat with you. Thank you. And the Oracle here says that this movie is going to make a lot of money.