Priyanka Chopra recalled the “dehumanizing second” a movie director put her in an uncomfortable scenario on set.

The actress, 40, revealed that an unnamed Bollywood filmmaker had requested to see her underwear throughout the early years of her profession.

“This will likely have been 2002 or 2003,” she instructed The Zoe Report.

“I’m undercover, I’m seducing the man — clearly that’s what ladies do once they’re undercover. However I’m seducing the man and you need to take off one piece of clothes [at a time],” she recalled.

“I needed to layer up [but] the filmmaker was like, ‘No, I must see her underwear. In any other case, why is anyone coming to look at this film?’”

“He didn’t say it to me,” Chopra went on. “He mentioned it to the stylist in entrance of me. It was such a dehumanizing second. It was a sense of, ‘I’m nothing else exterior of how I can be utilized, my artwork will not be essential, what I contribute will not be essential.’”

The “Citadel” star mentioned the ordeal prompted her to stop the challenge two days later, however mentioned she paid the manufacturing crew out of pocket for the cash they’d misplaced after her father urged her to take action.

“I simply couldn’t take a look at [the director] daily,” she added.

Chopra not too long ago revealed the explanation she left Bollywood, saying she felt “pushed right into a nook” by the business.

“I had individuals not casting me, I had beef with individuals, I’m not good at enjoying that sport so I type of was uninterested in the politics and I mentioned I wanted a break,” she mentioned on Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Skilled” podcast in March.

It was quickly after that she kickstarted her short-lived music profession, which ultimately acquired her into Hollywood.

“This music factor gave me a chance to enter one other a part of the world, not crave for the flicks I didn’t wish to get however I’d require to schmooze sure golf equipment and cliques of individuals,” she defined.

“It will require groveling and I had labored a very long time by then that I didn’t really feel like I needed to do it.”

“So when this music factor got here I used to be like ‘f–okay it I’am going to America,’” she added.

Since then, Chopra had gone on to land main roles in main TV exhibits.

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The actress, who has been married to Nick Jonas since 2018, starred within the hit ABC collection “Quantico” from 2015 till 2018.

She then went on to star in movies reminiscent of “Baywatch,” “Matrix: Revolutions,” and “The White Tiger.”

Most not too long ago, she secured a number one position within the Amazon Prime collection “Citadel.”