I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.
The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.
I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.
A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.
