Does the camera love Freida Pinto or what? These are new photos of Freida (and Dame Franco) at last night’s Hollywood premiere of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Frieda wore this interesting green dress by Juan Carlos Obando. The shoes are Brian Atwood. As a fellow Indian girl with similar coloring, I have to admit that I’m surprised she looks so good in this shade of green. This shade is difficult when you’re darker and your skin has yellow undertones – I think I would probably look sickly in this shade, but Freida really pulls it off. Her hair, especially, looks great and that face…! I love her. I want her to do well and make good movies. I want her to not be a brat. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, WWD has an interesting interview with Frieda, which you can read here. Here are some highlights:
Frieda hasn’t seen the 1968 original “Planet of the Apes” nor its 2001 remake by Tim Burton: “I have not even seen the films, to be honest,” she confesses. “I think the best way to do it is go in ignorant.” Instead, she researched her role as a primatologist by immersing herself in documentaries about chimpanzees, research and animal testing.
On trying not to be nervous: “I’m not thinking about the fan pressure or anything right now,” she explains. “On the Woody Allen film set, I wasted a lot of my time being nervous, and I just feel the more you get nervous, the less you focus on the more important thing: delivering your goods.”
On traveling: “Strangely enough, when I’m passing immigration at airports, I keep getting, ‘Are you Brazilian?’ all the time,” she says. “I’m very curious to see if that would actually happen when I’m in Brazil. I love going into a country and just blending.”
[From WWD]
I feel her about people mixing up ethnicities. When people guess my ethnicity, I get Greek, Mexican, German (you’d be surprised how many people guess German), Italian, Native American and Portuguese. Or, as they say in England, “foreign.” I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked “What tribe are you from?” when I say that I’m Indian.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Frieda Pinto is lovely and can do no wrong in my book. Love the Indian girls.
Lovely woman
I love the color.
She looks lovely.
Are she and Dev Patel still together? I haven’t seen anything of late. Just curious.
I don’t like the drape/cut of her dress, but the color is a real knockout on her.
I love the gown! She looks so fresh and sexy-sweet! Thumbs up!
Love the color. Spearmint? She looks great. Lots of skintones would ‘disappear’ in that color.
operagirl – as far as I know, she and Dev are still together. They were in Cannes together in May, and they’ve been seen out together since then.
I love the color on her, not sure too many people could pull that color off – but it’s beautiful on her –
I will be the dissenting vote. I think she is one of the most beautiful women out there today but the color is not quite right for her. It’s a little too washed out and doesn’t accentuate her beautiful skin tone, it fights it. She manages to pull it off because she is stunning but a different tone or shade would have been better.
Great dress, she looks lovely.
I only feel bad for her that she’s in that Apes movie, which looks horrible.
Thanks, Kaiser! I’m so glad. I don’t know why I love the two of them together so much, but I do. They are adorable.
She is so beautiful, I’m speechless.
Eh, being mistaken for a different country/ethnic backround is the consequence of living in a world still full of stereotypes…it’s like when people can’t believe that Southern european countries have redheads and blondes. Or that in the deepest North, some people have asian traits.
The list is very long.
However, she looks typical (mainstream) Indian to me.
It is like the green in the flag of Brazil, and also like many Brazilian women she wears it well.
Freida is BEAUTIFUL.
She is gorgeous, but the green fights with her for the attention. That’s a sign that it’s the wrong shade for her. Still, she has a beautiful smile. Maybe a slightly warmer green, and probably a paler shade of lipstick and she would be even more stunning.
Indian women are so beautiful. I’m jealous.
I think the dress works because she’s wearing it. It’s hard to make an outfit look bad when you look like her. She’s incredibly beautiful, and she’s rocking it from head to toe. Though, having said this, something about her face seems a little…dare I say it…tweaked? I can’t tell if it’s just makeup, or overly-plucked brows, or what…but my first thought when I saw her (more specifically, when I saw other pics on the daily mail) was ‘oh no Frieda not a nose job honey WHY’. The longer and closer I look, the less certain I am, and I hope I’m wrong but SOMETHING is different. Help??
pretty gorgeous if you ask me! not many women can get away with wearing a colour that ‘look at me’ but she can
There is something about that dress that makes her look fat in the hips.
uh, she bores me..don’t see what folks are so excited about..
there are plenty of gorgeous foreign women. meh.
is her acting any good??? I need to check it out.
I’d prefer Sofia V, more spicy.
She would blend right in here in Puerto Rico too. She is very pretty.
I’m with Truthful on this one.
Also, the dress is not flattering at all.
Nose job alert 🙂
She has had a nose job!
http://www.sydney4women.com.au/freida-pinto-cosmetic-surgery-analysis/freida-pinto-before-after-nose-job/
She’s got gigantic feet!!! Bigger than Franco’s even with the heel. Otherwise, she’s quite lovely…
I’m not even going to bother caring because her face is SO pretty. And weird, she has the same mouth as the guy standing next to her – yes, I know it is James Franco.
would everyone please stop wearing those blah flesh colored shoes! The dress is a shapeless mess and that train thing looks like left over fabric from the bolt that should have been trimmed away. She’s pretty, but that ensemble is not.
It is a very, very pretty color, but I would prefer to see her in a deep jewel tone- emerald for a green. That’d be lovely.
Not a fan of the color but this woman could wear anything and look good.
I’m tired of the “flesh colored” heels look, too. It is supposed to elongate the appearance the leg, but most people do not pick a shade close enough to their own actual flesh’s color, so it becomes just wearing beige shoes.
Some bright, multi-colored (but not too many colors) shoes would look lovely with this dress.
I love the dress, think it’s beautiful.
What I don’t like is her make up.
well, brittish guyana near brasil has a large indian population, and i know brasil has, as well….and brasil is very sexy and international-which is how frieda strikes me-
she does look indian, but her energy is a little more sexy than how most subcontinent indian women carry themselves….which is more conservative. Frieda does not have that conservative air about her. she’s got that comfortable with her sexiness energy, which is very brasilian in my experience.
I also want to say: Isn’t frieda from Goa india? former PORTUEGESE colony [like brasil!] and Pinto is a portuegese name-which may be why people ask her…heck, frieda is not a traditional indian name either, is it?
btw, i learned to make curry from my brasilian [indian] friend, while living in kenya….her mom taught her-and the family was originally brittish guyanan, and obv. prior to that, from india.
and i remember ppl telling her to wear more conservative dress in kenya [she would wear excercise shorts that fit tight but went almost to the knee, and a short tank top, to school, etc] and she was like ‘um, these ARE my conservative shorts’ LOL Gotta love brasilians(:] No stereotypes intended, just sharing my experience-though it’s a diverse place and i have brasilian friends who cover up more, the stereotype persists for a reason.
Stereotypes tend to represent general energy of a place or type-like american stereotypes; they are founded in some truth, but not all of us americans are the same, obviously….
that’s how i feel about stereotypes; they are not always negative in interpretation.
@cleo, i thought the same thing, and also thought ‘she and james franco kind of look alike’….weird!
You need to have THAT face to wear that color. She is luminous.
stunning..
Color’s gorgeous on her, but I don’t like the hemline, either.
she does not look brazilian at all
i live in brazil….
She is so amazingly gorgeous but this dress is a fail on her. Sorry, but exactly what kind of green is this? Sprite? 7-Up? Kelly green with too much yellow in it? IDK but I can’t get behind this.
Apple green.
Wow – super beautiful – great dress!
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