Want to meet 'the next Tom Cruise?' Check out PNemiroff's ColliderLadiesNight interview with PoliteSociety star Priya Kansara!
We’ve seen quite a few actors make a big impression via a first feature, but Priya Kansara does it in spectacular fashion in Polite Society. Kansara does it all in the film.
With Polite Society now playing in theaters nationwide, Kansara took the time to join me for a Collider Ladies Night Pre-Party interview to revisit how she scored her first lead role in a feature film. The other thing that pushed Kansara away from pursuing a career as an actor initially? “I didn't see people that looked like me on screen or in this space.” She added, “I don't think I thought it was accessible to me.” However, Kansara did notice more and more change as she got older, and that change inspired her to fully embrace her greatest passion.
While squeezing in auditions via open casting calls, that’s when Kansara encountered someone who’d change everything for her and prove to be an ideal source of guidance and support, her agent. She continued, “I would go for open cast auditions and do things like that, and eventually I was signed. Actually, around the time that I left my job, I signed with my current agent who actually was the person that I got this role because of.
“I remember one time being asked to audition for the part of a hijabi girl, so somebody who presents as being Muslim by wearing the headscarf. The role didn't look like she takes it off at any point and her faith was really important in the story, but [I] also couldn’t tell if the writers were Muslim, and I was conscious about taking space and taking somebody else's space in this industry.
“We did one scene with the sister, one scene with the friends, and one scene with the teacher so that Nida could kind of see my range because all of those three scenes were very different and they required — I guess they were almost like slightly different genres within themselves. They were very different relationships that were being explored, and really key parts of the story as well to explore Ria’s journey.
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