Priyanka Chopra Jonas revisited the racist backlash caused by his NFL theme song a decade ago on this week’s episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” saying, “It all hits home: the criticism, the fact that my work requires me to be dissected. »
Chopra Jonas’ “In My City”, produced by RedOne and featuring will.i.am, became the opening theme song for the 2013 edition of NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football. Following the song’s use on the network, she noted that some NFL fans had expressed less than positive responses on Twitter when commenting on the singer’s South Asian roots.
“NFL Network got a lot of tweets and stuff. Or, you know, things that say, “Who is she?” Who is this person ? And why should she go on American television and say: “Football should be an American person.” “It was really, really confusing, because I was just an artist with a song that they liked,” Chopra Jonas told Wallace.
Looking back on her hit song that got her the NFL job — which Wallace said wasn’t “that bad” before dropping the music video — Chopra Jonas couldn’t help but note, “J I was so young.
After Wallace asked Chopra Jonas if the racist comments affected her or if they didn’t “hit” her since she had already been in the industry for a while, the “Citadel” star responded : “No, it hits you every time. ,” she said. “It all hits home: the criticism, the fact that my job requires me to be dissected, and you know, under a microscope. Everything I say, my home, my family, everything is looked at.
Although Chopra Jonas admits that “of course” the backlash was hurtful, she is acutely aware that criticism is “the nature of the beast” and, with 23 years of experience in the entertainment industry under her belt, she doesn’t expect criticism to be the nature of the beast. work to change, instead saying “you need to start protecting yourself”.
“I’m someone who wears blinders… (and) I believe in letting my work speak for itself,” she said. “The best thing to do when faced with people like that, who say I didn’t belong, is to belong. And today I have the number one show in the world (“Citadel”), and I’m sitting here talking to Chris Wallace, so who won?
Chopra Jonas recently made some hits on the big and small screen with the romantic comedy “Love Again,” in which Chopra Jonas stars alongside “Outlander” star Sam Heughan, as well as Prime Video’s “Citadel,” in which Chopra Jonas Jonas plays the mysterious and talented spy Nadia, alongside Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci in the action thriller series.
Watch Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ full interview with Chris Wallace in the video at the top.
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