{"id":11562,"date":"2023-04-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2023-04-29T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T10:43:49","slug":"getting-parts-that-inspire-you-is-hard-says-radhika-apte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2023\/04\/28\/getting-parts-that-inspire-you-is-hard-says-radhika-apte\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting parts that inspire you is hard, says Radhika Apte\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Radhika Apte says she worries about turning down a job because the projects won’t keep coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radhika Apte’s Mrs Undercover is currently streaming on ZEE5. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Actor Radhika Apte<\/strong> says it\u2019s difficult to find characters that inspire her and that\u2019s one of the reasons why she chooses to do limited work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 37-year-old actor, who divides her time between India and the UK, was most recently seen in the ZEE5 film Mrs Undercover, in which she plays Durga, a housewife who is a spy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is difficult these days to find that good script as everyone is making everything so fast, there are lots of other parameters that have to fit in. It is difficult to find roles that you just wholeheartedly go and feel this is so well crafted,\u201d Apte told PTI in a virtual interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI live in two countries. I work when I want to do work. I don\u2019t do a lot of work because it makes me feel quite exhausted, so I select less work, I like it that way. When I don\u2019t work, I write, read, and do things other than acting,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, there are moments when she worries about turning down a role because she wonders if the projects will keep coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just say, \u2018I don\u2019t feel like doing the part right now.\u2019 It is hard to reject because sometimes you don\u2019t have anything else and you feel, \u2018Will I get work?\u2019 As a freelance actor, you are constantly thinking about your next project, it can be scary but it is ok.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known for films such as Badlapur, Phobia, Andhadhun, and Monica, O My Darling<\/strong>, Radhika Apte said her role in Mrs Undercover is a departure from the intense roles she is known for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou always try to find roles that are different from what you have done before. So, that is intentional. When I was approached for this, they (makers) didn\u2019t have a script, they had an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI liked the idea about a housewife being an undercover spy and finding out that she has much more to do in life, and that she deserves much more than her husband\u2019s treatment. And this was a comedy spy thriller, it\u2019s a genre I have never seen, so I was quite excited about it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actor said she enjoyed doing stunts for the ZEE5 film, directed by debutante Anushree Mehta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a new thing for me, it was fun to do because I had never done it before. There is clumsiness to it, there is proper action at times (too). It was a lot of fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radhika Apte, who previously played real life British secret agent of Indian descent Noor Inayat Khan in the 2019 American spy drama A Call to Spy, said there is a \u201cwave\u201d of spy films today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody is making spy films, which is fine, it will come and go. There is always a wave of something, biopics, romance, action, etc, different genres, different things coming and going, so it is probably one of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of recent examples of spy films include Pathaan, Mission Majnu as well as web series The Night Manager and Special Ops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a thing that everybody wants to watch right now, it is exciting and adventurous. But we have had spy stories for a long time, we have grown up watching different spy stories, mysteries and whodunnits. As I said, the genres come and go,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radhika Apte says she worries about turning down a job because the projects won’t keep coming. Radhika Apte’s Mrs Undercover is currently streaming on ZEE5. Actor Radhika Apte says it\u2019s difficult to find characters that inspire her and that\u2019s one of the reasons why she chooses to do limited work. The 37-year-old actor, who divides her time …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[82,15566,15565],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-bollywood","tag-mrs-undercover","tag-radhika-apta"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11580,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions\/11580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}