A-listers hesitate to work with me: Taapsee

Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu has played a scientist, a lawyer, a hockey player, a sharpshooter and many other powerful roles in her career so far. The ‘Pink’ star has now opened up about how popular male actors refrain to share the frame with her.

In an interview with CBFC member Vani Tripathi Tikoo at the FICCI Global Young Leaders Summit 2021, Taapsee talked about how A-list actors are hesitant about starring in women-led films. She also said that even the new actors do not want to act in her movies, reports Hindustan Times.

Taapsee listed the excuses that the male actors make for not working with her. “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. 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,” she said.

“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%,” Taapsee added.

Taapsee Pannu has a busy schedule ahead, with back-to-back projects lined-up. She will be seen in Aakash Bhatia’s ‘Looop Lapeta’ and ‘Shabaash Mithu’.

This year, the actress was seen in Vinil Mathew’s ‘Haseen Dillruba’, starring Vikrant Massey and ‘Rashmi Rocket’, in which she played the role of an athlete.

Taapsee Pannu has starred in films like ‘Game Over’, ‘Badla’, ‘Saand Ki Aankh’ and ‘Mission Mangal’. The actress is best-known for her performances in critically acclaimed as well as hit films like ‘Pink’, ‘Naam Shabana’, ‘Soorma’, ‘Mulk’, ‘Manmarziyaan’ and ‘Thappad’.