I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.
I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.
I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'
It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.
I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.