

Hours can get long, it can get repetitive, and it can be a grind like any other job, but she has this energy that always keeps it buoyant and focused and fun.” She’s super nice, super kind, thoughtful, considerate, quirky, fun. You know the adage, “don’t meet your heroes”? Anthony Russo, who has met most of them, calls his leading lady the rare exception: “Priyanka is exactly who you hope she would be like. But it’s also firmly in line with the intentional person her friends and colleagues say she is.

The fact that a woman as fully optimized as Chopra Jonas would demand more of herself is humbling.

“But I want to be able to rise above just banal and be able to find something that contributes to me as well.” “My life is complex and I understand that, so I end up doing something banal and simple,” she says. He tried it on and was like, ‘Oh, it’s lovely.’ And it’s falling off of him.” So maybe knitting is not the answer, the actress concedes, but still, she wants more from her me time than a binge-watch and a glass of wine. But the resulting effort was, “I swear to God, like seven times his size,” she says, laughing. On the set of Citadel-an intense year-and-a-half long shoot executive produced by Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors of Avengers: Endgame-she thought she might use her downtime to knit a sweater for said husband, singer/actor Nick Jonas. Why don’t I want more for myself?”ĭress, Dior. “How many women out there who balance work and life forget about doing something that is just for themselves, because they’re so consumed by having that work-life balance? I realized my husband plays golf and sports and has all of these hobbies.

“It’s something I’ve been thinking about lately,” Chopra Jonas says from London, midway through a busy day of press for her new series, which streams on Prime Video starting April 28. Still, she’s worried that she needs a hobby. Before all of this, Chopra Jonas was a supernova of Indian cinema, who, in addition to her acting and musical career, founded a production company scored a multimillion-dollar TV development deal helped launch the buzzy New York City restaurant Sona and the hair-care company Anomaly served as a brand ambassador for Bulgari invested in Bumble wrote a bestselling memoir tirelessly advocated for the education of girls around the world and became mother to a 15-month daughter of her own, who is trying at the moment to go down for a nap. The actress anchors the series and does her own stunts as a spy of James Bond-caliber skill and charisma, while simultaneously earning top billing in a new romantic comedy with Sam Heughan. When I meet Priyanka Chopra Jonas, she is days away from the premiere of the spy drama Citadel, one of the most ambitious and expensive projects in Amazon Studio’s streaming history.
