{"id":280347,"date":"2026-02-12T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:15:10","slug":"priyanka-chopra-jonas-on-blowing-up-her-acting-career-ignoring-nick-jonas-marriage-backlash-and-coming-back-to-indian-movies-for-rrr-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280347\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra Jonas on \u2018Blowing Up\u2019 Her Acting Career, Ignoring Nick Jonas Marriage Backlash and \u2018Coming Back to Indian Movies\u2019 for \u2018Rrr\u2019 Director\u2019s New Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Priyanka Chopra Jonas<\/a> winces \u2014 only slightly, but unmistakably \u2014 when the word \u201ccrossover\u201d enters the conversation. It\u2019s a frigid January afternoon in Manhattan, but the Hudson River gusts can\u2019t penetrate the interior of the Upper West Side high-rise apartment she shares with husband Nick Jonas<\/a> and their 4-year-old daughter, Malti<\/a>. It\u2019s warm and cozy inside the dimly lit room, with plush velvet walls and a poker table at the ready in case anyone is feeling lucky. Even so, Chopra Jonas keeps a black wool overcoat draped across her lap.<\/p>\n

Chopra Jonas has been chronicling her unlikely trajectory from highest-paid actress in India to Hollywood action heroine; somewhere in between, she tried to launch a pop music career. \u201cFor a hot minute \u2014 and then quickly realized I should go back to acting,\u201d she says with a self-deprecating laugh. It\u2019s easy-breezy, but then the C-word hits like an arctic blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra Jonas winces \u2014 only slightly, but unmistakably \u2014 when the word \u201ccrossover\u201d enters the conversation. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,14596,14595,4223,14594,111,139,69,14597,14600,14598,14599,5436,437],"class_list":["post-280347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fernsehen","tag-filme","tag-hollywood","tag-nachrichten","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prominente","tag-regisseure","tag-schauspieler","tag-schauspielerinnen","tag-stars","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}