She is India’s most successful import to Hollywood, but Freida Pinto says that she was scared that her career will end after ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The actress went from a small-time model in Mumbai to an international star with her debut film ‘Slumdog…’, which won eight Oscars in 2009, reported New York Post online. “I had a lot of moments where I lived in fear that nothing was going to happen after ‘Slumdog Millionaire’,” said the 26-year-old. The actress is meanwhile gaining rave reviews for her performance in Julian Schnabel’s ‘Miral’, where she plays an orphaned Palestinian growing up in war-torn Jerusalem. “He is everything I needed after ‘Slumdog Millionaire’,” said Pinto on her collaboration with Schnabel. “There were a lot of people expecting a lot out of me and I know that I have this twenty minute role in a fabulous film like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. It’s an amazing role, but it would be difficult to convince people from there that ‘Hey listen I am a serious actor and I really really want to do this, I’m passionate about this’. And Julian gave me that opportunity,” said the actress. Though some Jewish groups have claimed that the film is “anti-Israel”, Pinto, who recently starred in Woody Allen’s ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’, is gaining plaudits for her gritty performance. Pinto is currently working on the action-adventure movie ‘Rise of the Apes’, where she stars alongside James Franco. The film is set in present day San Francisco and follows the story of a man’s own experiments with genetic engineering.
