The Guardian that, after his breakout role in Slumdog Millionaire, he would “wait for an Indian role to come by, where I could put on a thick accent” as “there wasn’t anything else, it was literally the cliches: goofy sidekick, taxi driver”.Patel said: “Sometimes I feel stuck in this cultural no-man’s land.
I’m not British enough to be fully British, not Indian enough to be fully Indian.”The actor also explained how his Slumdog co-star and former girlfriend Freida Pinto faced being typecast as a “exotic beauty next to all these Caucasian leading men”.In turn, Patel says it led him to become “fixated” on the ethnicity of his character in The Personal History Of David Copperfield.He told director Armando Iannucci: “Wait, so is his mum going.
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