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Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra were a girl’s girl even before it was a thing. Both the actresses were pushed with questions about their rivalry time and again but the queens made sure no one tampered with their pure bond. Here’s a look back at one of those times when the OG ‘it girls’ of Bollywood made sure they had each other’s back even when the world made a thousand assumptions.
Back in 2016, when Priyanka Chopra had already forayed into the West, the actress once had an encounter with a reporter at an event when the man indirectly asked about their rivalry. He started his question by appreciating her global feat and made a note that Deepika had also started doing well in Hollywood.
The reporter asserted that the news about their Bollywood competition turning into a global competition is doing rounds and whether she has a say on it. Priyanka in her savage style replied, “I thought you guys used to say that we were friends, now it has become a competition. Everyone earlier wrote we were BFFs, so how did it change, when did it change, and why did it change?”
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When the reporter told PeeCee, “You will tell us,” she replied, “No, I didn’t say that it has changed, you are saying that it has changed. I am clarifying that nothing has changed, we are the same as we were. Your perspective has changed, which you should not change.” I mean that’s exactly how you shut people when they try to fuel distress between two friends – just queen behaviour.
We remember one such interview that Deepika Padukone gave the same year to Vogue India and gave silent treatment to the one who asked if her bond with Priyanka had soured. However, she went on to explain the brains, “We have had very different beginnings. I still remember I was in school when she won Miss World! I’ve known her for many years and nothing has changed.”
She further rejected the presumed notion that two actors are bound to have competition if they have similar career trajectories and insisted, “Everyone will have a different path and a different journey.”
Deepika in another interview with Hindustan Times thanked the journalist for asking about her ‘friend’ Priyanka Chopra. “I like the fact that you use the word ‘friend’ because that’s what she is to me,” Padukone said stressing that whenever she reads anything that doesn’t mention that PeeCee is her friend leaves her surprised.
The Padmaavat actress further shared that she has known Priyanka for years and that any comparisons between them are “extremely awkward and weird”. “I don’t even believe that we are professional rivals. We never were. So, why should we be now? She is doing amazing work in her own space. And what her work will require from her in terms of time and other commitments are different from what I am working towards or what I am doing,” Deepika added.
On the work front, Deepika and Priyanka shared screens together in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus Bajirao Mastani (2015). Their dance sequence in the song Pinga was largely hailed and became iconic. PeeCee earlier made a special song appearance in the Deepika-fronted movie Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela.
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Mark Wahlberg recently revealed he was a ‘big’ fan of his co-star Halle Berry before he teamed up with her on their newly released spy action comedy-thriller film The Union. While it’s the first time the two actors have collaborated on screen, Wahlberg shared that he and Berry have been friends for a long time, so it was great working with her on the project.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mark Wahlberg and his co-star Halle Berry opened up about their experience working on their latest Netflix action-comedy, The Union. The Deepwater Horizon actor told the outlet that the best part of making the movie was that “It was so easy,” before admitting that he was a “big fan” of the Moonfall actress for a long time. He added, “We’ve been friendly for a long time, but we haven’t had a chance to work together.”
In the movie, Wahlberg portrays the character of Mike McKenna, an underachieving construction worker in New Jersey, whose high school sweetheart Roxanne, (played by Berry), comes back into his life and recruits him for a dangerous intelligence mission in Europe that puts them back together into a world of spies and high-speed car chases, with sparks flying along the way.
The Entourage actor further talked about his character, explaining that Mike is a guy who would do anything to impress the most important woman in his life. He teased that Mike “basically made it 25 years, still at home, still hanging around the same places waiting for Roxanne to walk through that door.”
He reflected on their character’s relationship, mentioning that Mike always hoped they would have another opportunity to reconnect, and despite having other relationships during their time apart, “there was only one person who hits hard, and that’s her [Berry] character.”
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The publication noted that when it came to training for the film, Mark Wahlberg shared that he stuck to his daily “4 a.m.” routine, while Halle Berry preferred a different schedule, leading her to do her training separately. The actress acknowledged that Wahlberg is very intense in the gym, adding that he even goes to bed early—a fact she hadn’t known about him before.
Meanwhile, Julian Farino’s The Union is now streaming on Netflix. Alongside Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg, the film also features Mike Colter, Jackie Earle Haley, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, J. K. Simmons, Alice Lee, Jessica De Gouw, James McMenamin, and Lorraine Bracco.