Jun 04, 2016 11:11 PM
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During an average Wednesday afternoon at Mel’s Cite du Cinema, a studio nestled next to Montreal’s Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, the average pedestrian would perhaps be privy to the fact that the likes of Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts had all filmed box office hits within the walls. But what they wouldn’t know is that on that particular Wednesday, one of the biggest stars in the world – Priyanka Chopra – was busy shooting scenes for an upcoming episode of ABC’s "Quantico."
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When the series kicked off last Sunday, the press widely honed in on the fact that Chopra, a Bollywood star with more than 11 million Twitter followers, was about to become America’s sweetheart. As a former Miss World winner and a sought-after film star, she quickly became the poster child for the series during ABC’s heavy publicity campaign, despite not even the showrunner, Joshua Safran, being completely familiar with her work when she was cast.
"She just came in like any other actor on the day we were auditioning the role of Alex, " he told Indiewire. "She was very clearly an entity in and of herself and I was very surprised because I did not know who she was — she was just another name on that day’s sheet. This is an ensemble show — even though the role of Alex is front and center like Meredith Grey on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ — so we weren’t going after stars."
