It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.
Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.
As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.
It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
When you're not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.
The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.
Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
When you are a freelancer, you are always looking for a next job. There is always struggle.
The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
In Bollywood, it's always feast or famine for an actress. That's the way of the game.
