Overview
- Speaking at CNBC-TV18’s Global Leadership Summit, Padukone said she encountered casting bias and remarks about her accent and skin tone in the West.
- She described turning down clichéd offers and taking a slower route so she could represent India on her own terms.
- Padukone highlighted her new role as the voice of Meta AI across multiple countries, noting the irony after earlier mockery of her voice and accent.
- She voiced optimism about artificial intelligence but maintained it cannot replicate human emotion or the soul an actor brings.
- Recalling her Louis Vuitton campaign on Los Angeles billboards, she called it a proud moment for Indian women, and she noted upcoming films including King and an Atlee project with Allu Arjun.