And as to Apes, people love it, but I don’t hear people talking about her in it. She was so bad in the trailer for Immortals, and if that’s the best they could find, I worry. What Hollywood Thinks: “I haven’t seen her do anything but stand there and look gorgeous,” said one nonplussed agent we spoke to, while another added, “I don’t know how deep her skills are. Slumdog was a monster hit that grossed almost $400 million worldwide, but Stranger and Miral both underperformed in limited release.
Peers: Hollywood casting directors group her with older peers like Zoe Saldana (33), and Michelle Rodriguez (33), but she’s running behind Rosario Dawson (32) and Jessica Alba (30). After Apes, she’ll continue her current foray into big-budget pictures with the love interest part in Tarsem Singh’s Greek fantasy Immortals, and then she has Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold and Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna on tap. Off of that movie, she booked a supporting role in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, then landed a lead in Julian Schnabel’s controversial Miral. Stock History: Pinto modeled, hosted, and studied acting in India before Slumdog came along. We decided to put the 26-year-old actress to the test by asking industry insiders one simple question: If Freida Pinto were a stock, would you buy, sell, or hold? Still, did the Mumbai-born beauty choose wisely? This weekend’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes will rep her most high-profile film since Slumdog, and while the movie is suddenly riding a wave of good reviews and ecstatic buzz for its motion-capture performance from Andy Serkis, Pinto herself seems overlooked. Freida Pinto and Dev Patel both broke out in a big way when Slumdog Millionaire became an Oscar-winning sleeper hit back in 2008, but only Pinto has managed to fully capitalize on the moment: She lined up four new films, including indies with Woody Allen and Julian Schnabel, and quickly became a fashion-magazine staple.
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