Neena Gupta, who began her career in the 1980s, faced struggles in films despite TV successes. Now, in a recent interview, she recalled being turned down for Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet,' despite traveling to Los Angeles for a meeting.
Neena was auditioning for the role that was ultimately played by Dimple Kapadia. She said that Dimple landed the role even without traveling to Los Angeles.
In a chat with News 18 Showsha, Neena shared, ‘I still give auditions and get rejected. I went to LA this one time for a day just to meet (Christopher) Nolan [for Tenet]. But Dimple (Kapadia) got the part even though she didn’t travel to LA to meet him.’
During the film's promotion, Dimple mentioned meeting the director in India for location scouting and also auditioning for the role.
Sharing her experience with Pinkvilla, she credited her agent, Purvi Lavingia, for her persistent efforts that eventually led her to secure the role.
She told Pinkvilla, ‘I had to do an audition and it was very scary. I prepared myself. I can’t remember lines so I wrote them in papers and I said, ‘Let me at least try for myself… Let me see if I can do it or not.’ The first one, I wasn’t happy with it and did another one… We sent it across and I was very wary, so I called up my agent Purvi Lavingia and thanks to her, I got this because she’s so persistent.’
She added that she was cast because Nolan ‘liked’ her audition.
Dimple had shared that she did recommend names of other actors for the role too but her agent believed that she would be right for the part.
Dimple played the role of Priya, an arms dealer, in the film that was led by John David Washington.
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