MUMBAI: Priyanka Chopra has millions of fans not just in India but also around the world. One of them is Oscar-winning star, Anne Hathaway. Did you know that Anne, who turned 38y/o yesterday, i.e. on 12th of November, had once confessed that she loves Priyanka’s gorgeous skin?
While Anne was promoting her film Serenity with Matthew McConaughey in 2019, she showered Priyanka with compliments during an interview. “Priyanka Chopra’s skin. Right? I have nothing on her. My god! So right now I am online every night going... ‘What is she...how did she do it’?”, she said while Matthew smiled brightly, who was seated next to her.
Anne was last seen in The Last Thing He Wanted with Ben Affleck in February. The film released on Netflix and failed to receive positive reviews. Her latest film is the remake of the Witches and it is already embroiling in a controversy.
The film sparked major backlash from the disabled community and Anne had even apologised for the same. The villainous witches in the Warner Bros. film, including the 'Coven Leader' (played by Anne), are seen as having only three fingers. The design of the fingers resembles 'Ectrodactyly', also known as a split or cleft hand, which is a limb disability.
Several social media users have objected to the representation of the limb as disrespectful as it was used to portray Anne’s character as non-human.
She took to Instagram to share a video which was a 'Luck Fin Project', featuring people with limb differences and penned down a long caption dedicated to the specially abled-people, apologising to the community for offending them with her film. She began the note by stating how she always tries her best to be 'sensitive' towards other's feelings and experiences.
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“I have recently learned that many people with limb differences, especially children, are in pain because of the portrayal of the Grand High Witch in The Witches.”, she wrote. “Let me begin by saying I do my best to be sensitive to the feelings and experiences of others not out of some scrambling PC fear, but because not hurting others seems like a basic level of decency we should all be striving for.”, her caption further read.
“I particularly want to say I’m sorry to kids with limb differences: now that I know better I promise I’ll do better. And I owe a special apology to everyone who loves you as fiercely as I love my own kids: I’m sorry I let your family down.”, she added.
Earlier last week, Warner Bros. studios had also extended their apology to the community.
The Witches was released on 22nd October, on HBO Max; which is Warner Bros.' sister streaming service. It was earlier scheduled for theatrical release before the pandemic-induced shutdown of theatres in March, owing to the Covid-19 emergency.
Credit: Hindustan Times
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