Sunny Leone: I can't erase the internet

 

 Sunny Leone has fantasies too food fantasies! The star of the upcoming Ek Paheli Leela, who's looking rather fantastic in the movie, says she works out hard enough to be able to put lots of sugar in her tea (usually black). But she hardly ever actually eats her fantasy food aaloo ke parathe with makkhan, dahi and aam ka achaar. She just thinks about it a lot! On a recent visit to our office, she spoke to us about food, fame and fans only two of which she admits she has in abundance. Excerpts from a chat:

In the film, you play a Rajasthani village girl from getting the language right to the way you walk, how was it preparing for the role?

Being Meera was easy. Meera is a girl in the present time, whom you saw in Desi Look and Khuda. But becoming Leela wasn't easy for me at all. That first look poster took six hours. It was a lot of pulling, tugging, tucking, taping, pinning, painting anything that you can think of was being done. Every morning, I had to get up two-three hours before everybody else to become Leela. Physically, I looked like Leela, but then, I had to become her. I don't walk like her and talk like her. Learning the Rajasthani language... I had to say the lines the way Leela was supposed to say them, not how I, as a modern girl living now, would say it. So, there were a lot of retakes. The hardest things were the stuff that was really simple, like walking. In Dholi Taro, one of the first shots has me walking, and that walk took 12 retakes! But once I was there, I talked to everybody like Leela would talk to them. Between takes and at the end of the day, I started calling everyone 'chhore'. It (the process) was torture, but it was fun.