Kangana Ranaut, a national award winner, says that she doesn’t like anything about her job. She also says that she doesn’t like what she goes through while portraying different characters in her films.
“I don’t like anything about my job, to be honest. I don’t like to meet these crazy people who I have to, as my characters. I don’t like the situations and circumstances my characters go through. I don’t like to emote to imaginary circumstances. I don’t like to go in mud and water when it is zero degree. Honestly I don’t like anything about my job.”
When asked how she deals with it, she quips, “I remind myself the bills that I have to pay.”
The 29-year-old says when she is approaching a new character in a film, her process involves “sculpting” the imaginary person in front of her and conversing with her, before finally fully knowing the role. The process, however, can be too taxing at times with the character almost overpowering the real self which can be dangerous for actors.
“Actors need to bring about certain sensitivity by stimulating to situations which don’t exist, where you can almost behave mechanically to situations. Like ‘action’ and you have to enact. Over a period, you can grow to be emotionally unhealthy, or sensitive.”
The actress also tells that she went through a very emotional period while paying her character in “Katti Batti”.
“When I was playing a cancer patient in ‘Katti Batti’, I was enacting my death scenes, I would cry all the time even for the smallest things. I had become so sensitive that I had to literally take care of myself, that it doesn’t affect my emotional and physical health.”
Kangana tells that she would rather be a director than an actor.
“I would rather be a director. There is always that next step that you want to take, but that doesn’t mean that I cannot get enough to unleash my creative forces where I already am. At some point I would like to be a director, as soon as I can.”
The multi-talented Kangana Ranaut seems to be trying to venture in to different ares to show her creativity and we can’t wait to see what she brings out.