Mumbai, September 30, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Actress Parineeti Chopra, who is receiving a positive response to her OTT debut with Shaque: Trust No One, has said she does not allow the emotions or moods of her characters to affect her personal life, adding that she can easily switch between her on-screen roles and her real self.
Parineeti spoke to IANS during the promotions of the series in Mumbai’s BKC area, alongside co-stars Tahir Raj Bhasin and Soni Razdan. She explained that the word “Cut” immediately helps her detach from the emotions she portrays on screen.
“The word ‘Cut’ cleanses me. I honestly, not even for a single second carry an emotion. In fact, people make fun of me that I’m like, sobbing and crying and screaming and they say cut and I’m laughing hysterically. I’ve had people actually enact this to me saying, ‘How are you doing this?’. I don’t know because I feel like it’s not something I do on purpose. It’s just how I am, I think as a person, because I’m truly acting in that moment,” she told IANS.
The actress said that even when she experiences genuine emotions and sheds real tears while performing a scene, she is able to disconnect as soon as the director calls “Cut”.
“However much I may feel and I have real tears coming out and real emotion and physicality. But the moment you say, ‘Cut’, I’m like, ‘Oh, cut. Okay. I have nothing to do now’. So I genuinely switch off. Thank God it’s like that because I think I would get very tired because there are many of these heavy characters that I’m playing nowadays. I think if I had the hangover, I would be exhausted as an artiste also as a person, definitely,” she said.
Parineeti added that carrying the emotions of a character beyond the set would leave her with little energy for her personal life. She said she believes in keeping her professional and personal experiences separate rather than remaining in an intense emotional state after filming a demanding scene.
“And I can’t do this one thing just because I’m playing a role in a film or a show. I can’t just carry that emotion throughout my days and waste all that time. I have a life outside of that set and I have to live that also. I can’t be like, ‘But today I did an emotional scene, so I should be in this intense mood for the birthday party’,” she added.
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