The character played by Priyanka Chopra has just had sex a short while ago, if in a somewhat difficult position in a car. But then, she’s going to be an FBI agent, and crime-busters are often in a difficult position, aren’t they?
Especially when the guy you were with in the car turns out to have just joined the FBI academy too, exactly as you have. Yes, that’s a spoiler, but what the heck, the makers of the show want you to see the first eight minutes, which are up online here. Why, even the trailer gives it away.
Priyanka Chopra may not be kissing Bollywood goodbye anytime soon, but in ABC’s new TV series Quantico, which premieres in India on October 3, exactly a week after its launch in the US, she’s clearly moved into a different mode.
Playing the half-Indian half-white FBI trainee Alex Parrish, who is accused of being responsible for the biggest terror attack in the US since 9/11, Chopra has to enact a character quite unlike any in Indian cinema, where it’s almost unimaginable to have a believable policewoman. Having played a role like this, she may find it a little difficult to adjust to Bollywood’s unreal women roles.
Chopra hasn’t always been lauded for brilliant acting back home, but at least one preview, in Entertainment Weekly, loves her performance: “Plus, as a former Miss World who breaks typecasting as an inscrutable agent, Chopra’s bound to be a breakout star.”
Quantico, (Virginia, USA), by the way, is the place in the TV series where the FBI recruits are being trained. Elsewhere in real life, it is also a community of 35 homes, with a population of 133 (2010 census) in Wicomico County, Maryland, USA. The name, in native American, means “place of dancing”. Priyanka Chopra may find that familiar.
