“So I told them I wanted to play a part where I, as an actor, could deliver my job and it had nothing to do with my color or my ethnicity. “My only thing was them was that I wanted to play a part that was ethnically ambiguous because what happens with a lot of South Asian actors or actors who come from different countries is you get stereotyped into just what studio execs think that Indians should be,” Chopra says. Chopra recalls her early meetings with ABC when she first signed a talent deal with the network, ahead of her being cast to star in “Quantico.” At the time, Chopra - one of the biggest Bollywood stars of all time - told executives she did not want to play a stereotypical Indian character.
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