In their next spy thriller series, Citadel: Honey bunny, samantha Ruth Prabhu could have "pleaded" with filmmaker pair raj and DK to choose a different actor to play Honey. The performer was meant to play the parallel protagonist in the drama since her life was so hauntingly similar to her character's, even though her myositis diagnosis had overcome her at the time.
"I believe Honey contains many of my real-life experiences. When I was told the part, it was almost uncanny how much of my personal life was depicted in Honey. I thus took a lot of inspiration from my life and my early years to perform. "My performance has been affected by a lot of that," samantha states in an exclusive interview.
There are hints of it in a pivotal sequence in the first episode, where Honey, a struggling performer in bollywood from the 1990s, confides in her stunt coach and confidante bunny (played by varun Dhawan) that she wants to give up on her dream of being a movie star since she's not finding her place in the spotlight. samantha acknowledges that she experienced comparable periods of self-doubt as an outsider navigating the telugu cinema business in the 2000s before making her breakthrough with Ye Maaya Chesave, a love drama directed by gautham Vasudev menon in 2010.She also insists that the similarities with Honey transcend professional journeys and hit
home on a personal note. When I probe her to reveal more,
samantha says, “Oh my god! Should I? Can I? Well, for starters, I had a particularly difficult relationship with my father." She's quick to add that like her, “Honey also finds herself in tough situations, but she's able to bounce back from them.”
samantha, who was diagnosed with myositis and separated from her ex-husband
naga chaitanya around the same time, has made a mark for herself despite the hurdles not only in her native
industry but also at a pan-India level.
Now that she's back on a Raj & DK set, samantha is happy she did because it's just as therapeutic and contemplative, but in very different ways. Citadel: Honey bunny also has an 11-minute "oner" from the filmmaker pair, who are renowned for their extended shots and unrelenting action scenes. "Doing just one activity is quite uncommon these days. You multitask all the time. You're conversing on your phone. However, performing all these action scenes and oners forces you to simply be present, which is uncommon, samantha notes.
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