Deepika Padukone Opens up About Racial Discrimination in Hollywood

Deepika Padukone is currently at the Paris fashion week

She is the only Indian celebrity to represent the country there

She has been joining the likes of Ana de Armas, Alicia Vikander among other Hollywood celebrities

During her interaction at the event, Deepika bravely called

out the racial stereotypes in Hollywood and how the West perceives outsiders

 Deepika revealed that it used to upset her every time she went to the US 

and being at the receiving end of some of the things that have had been said and done

She also revealed the reason why she has not done more global movies

after her big Hollywood debut opposite Vin Diesel in xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Without naming the person, Deepika recalled her interaction with a Hollywood actor

"I know this actor… I met him at this Vanity Fair party, and he said

‘Hey by the way, you speak English really well.’ I didn’t even realise what that meant

 And when I came back I said, ‘What do you mean you speak English really well?’

Did he have this notion that we don’t speak English?’” she told Business of Fashion