'Baywatch' Star Priyanka Chopra Was Called An "Arab Terrorist" During National Football League

Actress Priyanka Chopra's recognition among the American audience is only surging with time. Her foray in the American television series Quantico has made her the talk of the town and now starring in Baywatch's movie adaptation has added more stars. After grabbing limelight for being a presenter at the 88th Academy Awards, the actress reminisces the moment when she was tagged as an Arab terrorist during a National Football League.

During a conversation with The Guardian, Chopra revealed that after her performance at the Thursday National Football League on her single track "In My City" in 2013, the NFL was swamped with email messages asking, "Who is this Arab terrorist?"

Expressing her opinion about it, Chopra said, "I find it really funny that people have such primitive thinking." And mentioning about the same at the time of one of her interviews, she specifically said, "I called them out. I said: Why is every Arab person a terrorist, and why am I an Arab terrorist just because I am brown?"

Palpably, she has now managed to shut the gateway of these comments through the success of her first American television series Quantico, produced by ABC Network. According to The Deccan Chronicle, the 33-year-old actress has also been awarded the People's Choice Award for the new star on television. And now, she is busy shooting for the second season of Quantico' and her Hollywood debut, a remake of Baywatch, featuring Zac Efron and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

Juggling between her hectic work schedules, Chopra shared her overtiredness. "I am in a state of permanent exhaustion. I'm always around people! I want to be lonely. I want to be left alone for, like, two hours, for f**k's sake!"

With so much to handle on the professional front, the actress shared that she "does not lack confidence" and probably that keeps her going ahead. "I am a little - I won't say arrogant - self-assured," she explained.

On the Bollywood front, the actress has not signed any project. Her last film Jai Gangaajal was recently released and critics found her performance exceptional.