Taapsee shares why male actors refrain from sharing screen with her

Hyderabad: Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu is currently basking in the success of her latest film ‘Rashmi Rocket’. In the film, the actor plays a powerful role of an athlete who fights gender testing in sports. Well, this is not the first time that the actor has been seen in a powerful avatar and that is, […]

Hyderabad: Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu is currently basking in the success of her latest film ‘Rashmi Rocket’. In the film, the actor plays a powerful role of an athlete who fights gender testing in sports. Well, this is not the first time that the actor has been seen in a powerful avatar and that is, maybe, why male actors refrain from sharing the screen with her.

Sharing further about male actors hesitating to be a part of women-led films, Tapsee, in an interview at the FICCI Global Young Leaders Summit 2021, said, “One actor refused to do a film (in which she had a double role), saying ‘ek Taapsee ko sambhalna mushkil hota hai, yahan toh do hain’. There was another actor who was offered a film with me and we had worked together before.

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He just said, ‘I don’t want to do this film because, actually, the sympathy goes more to the girl in the end’. It was a love story! I told him I expected a little more confidence and a sense of security in an actor like him. He has done way more films and is a bigger star. But that’s the sad truth we are dealing with every day.”

Taapsee added that the trend is carried on by new actors as well. “Every time I sit down with my producers over a list of the top five actors shortlisted for my films, those top five actors are the ones who have done just one or two films. And even they don’t want the role, because the system around them trains them to not do a film in which their role is just 10 per cent,” Taapsee said.

Meanwhile, Taapsee has a whole array of projects in the pipeline. She is currently tied with projects like ‘Looop Lapeta’, ‘Shabaash Mithu’, ‘Dobaaraa’, and ‘Woh Ladki Hai Kahaan’.

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