Chapter 1: Why is Priyanka Chopra Jonas nervous to talk to Joe Rogan?
the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day i won't lie i am nervous to talk to you come on just like how can you be nervous that's ridiculous like i came in slightly intimidated why I actually don't know the answer to that because we've never met. So it's not like you've intimidated me.
But I just I'm really I think what I really enjoy about your show is just such an eclectic perspective on so many diverse things. And it comes like so naturally to you. I really admire that. Well, fortunately, I don't have anybody pick my guests, so it's all people that I'm actually interested in talking to, so it's easy. Oh, that's nice. Well, thank you for picking me. Oh, my pleasure.
I'm excited to talk to you. Your movie is fucking crazy. It is. I knew it was a pirate movie, but I just did not expect the ultra-violence from the beginning. I was like, yo. I locked in immediately. I was like, first scene, I was like, holy shit. This is crazy. Well, thank you. That's a good thing, right? When you're doing something that's that hyper-violent, does that freak you out at all?
Like you're cutting people open with swords and stabbing them in the neck, and it's like, holy shit. When you're doing it, you know, it's like make believe. So it's so much fun to be like, yeah, I'm playing pirates and I'm going to behead you.
But I mean, in moments of like scenes and stuff where I actually had to think about what it must have been like to be a female at that time or because they existed, women, female pirates existed. And we just we didn't hear many much about stories about them. I mean, I heard about Grace O'Malley, maybe Mary Read, like a few famous ones.
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Chapter 2: What are Priyanka's thoughts on Joe Rogan's eclectic perspective?
Ching Shih, after I did my research. But like in those moments, you're like, this stuff must have, like this was real. They lived at a time where it was survival of the fittest. It was barbaric. And I wonder what that must have been like. But besides that, the stunts and stuff, like I really have so much admiration for
The amount of precision it requires to pull that stuff off from so many people, not just the stunt department, but like the cameras, because they're also moving in sync with you. Yeah. And that's cool. It is cool. Is it hard to stay in the moment when all that is happening? Because you have so much coordination and so... There's so much choreography.
There's, like, he's going to swing this way, and you're going to block it, and you're going to dive down. It's so complex. Like, these are long, extended fight scenes. We had, like, a lot of oners, too, like, fold the whole scene in one shot. Whoa.
Which Frankie, our director, really loved the idea of and I honestly love it because it brings you into that moment is so enriched with everything that you're supposed to feel between action and cut. So I do love a long one-er.
But, you know, I come from Bollywood movies, so we have a lot of choreography for like dance sequences where stories are also moving forward, like between, you know, your exchange of expression or something's happening somewhere else, you come back. So I treat sort of fight sequences like dancing. You learn the choreography, but that doesn't stop your face from telling the story. Right.
That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, it is kind. I mean, it's just choreography, whether it's choreography with dance or choreography with guns or weapons. I had never worked with blades before this movie, though. That was cool. How much training did you have to do? Like when you found out that you're going to take the role? Yeah.
How much preparation did you have to do physically to get ready for all that stuff? It was a cool year for me because I was filming three jobs which were all action and stunts. So this movie called Heads of State, which I did for Amazon again, and then Citadel and this movie. So it was a year of three action-packed jobs.
So being agile and being in it was already part of what I was doing because that's what I was filming every day. But the swords training was tough and to be ambidextrous with it as well. So I had my stunt coordinator who was doing all three movies with me. She, in between shots, she and I would just take our rubber swords out and do like choreography and rehearsals.
But like it took at least three or four months of just staying in it and getting loose with it. Also because Karl Urban, my co-actor, had, casual, learned how to do like sword fights in Lord of the Rings. So he was amazing at it. So I didn't, you know, in that last duel, I didn't want to be any less than. So I kind of went at it.
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Chapter 3: How does Priyanka prepare for ultra-violent roles in films?
No, you look very good at it. It was really good. Thank you. Did you work with some sort of a kendo specialist or some fencing specialist? How did you learn how to move the sword correctly? It wasn't kendo, for sure, and it definitely wasn't fencing.
It was uniquely—because the swords were—our director was very, very excited about the weapons in this movie and wanting to get it really right from— The period, whether it was the guns that we used or the blades that we used. The machete was one of my favorite weapons in the movie because that's like her weapon in the movie because it's practical. Use it for coconuts. Use it for skulls.
Same, same. And that was really fun. But our second unit director, Rob Alonzo, had so much experience in the amount of work that he's done prior. He came in with a very specific idea of wanting to make the fighting style super unique and each set piece like a different design of choreography. So, you know, there was one which was in a dark cave.
So the only time you saw people was when the gunshot went off and just different styles of fighting, which I thought was really cool. But did you have a professional trainer that taught you how to do that? Yes. So how would you do it? Would you do it with a real sword? Well, we had three different kinds of swords. The real sword weighs more than me. It was insane.
I couldn't do it with a real sword as much. But for filming, and this is the magic of the movies, you know, you have four different weights of it. One is like the real sword where you need it for like, you know, where it's a close up or the sword is really, really visible. But when you're doing the big choreography, you have like a lighter sword, which is created by the props department.
And then another lighter one. And when you need to flip it, it's the lightest one. I'm telling you all my secrets. That's good. It's good to know. That sucks. Oh, no. No, listen. Here I was trying to impress you with my sword flipping. No, it's impressive, period. And talking about my fencing, but no, it was movie magic.
One of the things that I always think when I was watching it is like, how many takes did you have to do with this? Because that's got to be so hard to do. Because you're swinging this gigantic iron thing. Yeah. And clashing into other ones. I'm like, if you have to do three or four takes of this, your arms are going to be toast. Yeah.
Oh, we did like 10 hours of it every day for like seven days or something. Do you have shoulder problems after that? No, actually I didn't, but I was jacked. My arms never looked as good. Now, I mean, I have a four-year-old and I lift her a lot, so my arms aren't like all right. But during this movie, oof. Because we were just like at it.
And we both threw ourselves at it, Carl and I. And it was a big choreography on top of this bluff we shot on... 100% of this movie, at least 90% is definitely on practical sets, real sets. We did not want to use a lot of VFX.
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Chapter 4: What unique challenges does Priyanka face while filming action sequences?
When you learn the history of that one corporation as one of the first publicly traded corporations that essentially was in control of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, went to war with China over opium, and that's how they took over Hong Kong. You're like, holy shit. One crazy fucking corporation involved in the slave trade, the opium – just a corporation, a publicly traded corporation.
People could buy stock in it, like one of the first ones. And it just went haywire to the point where it got so big there was a revolt and then the British government took over it and nationalized it. But it's – the whole story is insane. If you think about how much in their minds they were able to achieve and how much they were able to destroy in that duration is crazy if you go down history.
Change the course of countries forever. Human lives forever. Forever. Like the amount of pillaging that happened. Yes. Millions and millions of lives. And this movie actually has a really interesting slice of what they were capable of doing. They utilized pirates in order to take over new lands in their conquests.
And then when piracy was abolished, they went after them and they wanted to arrest them and They vilified the same people that helped them build their entire empire.
So this was really interesting because my character's story, her parents and her family are indentured servants, which was the truth of many, many people, especially in India, where young people were told better opportunities, new lands, more money. come with us and take them off as servants and then drop them in different parts of the world in islands.
And the Caribbean has a huge Indian community whose history started with just being displaced from their lands and dropped somewhere else in the world and then having to figure out what your future looks like. I mean, it still happens to many, many people around the world right now. But
Um, I thought it was really interesting that my character came from that and her entire identity was erased, taken from her. She had no idea. She was 12. So she had no idea what it meant to have that identity. And I met so many people actually, when I went to the Cayman, um, who don't know anything about their family tree beyond, like, five generations.
Or they know where their family may have come from, from Sri Lanka or from India or, you know, any other nation, but have no idea what, like, where, from what village, like, what was your culture. And that ambiguity in a history of a human being erases a part of you. It denies you of knowing the depth of your culture or where you come from or your roots.
And I thought that was really, really interesting for my character to play and then reclaim herself through the journey of the movie. Well, it's a fascinating part of human history. Yeah. And it's taken place all over the world. Yeah. For a lot of cultures, they don't have an understanding of exactly what happened before they were colonized. Yeah. Like one of the great examples is Mexico.
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Chapter 5: What experiences did Priyanka Chopra have while filming Fear Factor India?
Hindi. Wow. And it was in Rio, huh? We shot it in Rio. We had a big budget that year. What? So we were all flown out. So it's Fear Factor India. I wonder how many versions of Fear Factor there were. I mean, they're all over the world. Really? Yeah. Fear Factor used to exist all over. I don't know anymore, but back in the day. Once I stopped doing it, I stopped paying attention.
I was like, I'm out. Me too. So I knew Ludacris took it over at one point in time, and now Johnny Knoxville's doing it. That's all I knew. I had no idea that there was a bunch of different language versions of it. Yeah, yeah. You know, it originally came from a Holland show called Now or Neverland. It's a crazy show. Yeah. It was way more simple.
And then when it got brought to America, they decided to call it Fear Factor. The whole eating thing, we didn't take that back to India. Really? Yeah, we didn't do the eating thing. Because you never know people are vegetarian.
Chapter 6: How did cultural differences influence the show Fear Factor in India?
In India, it's a big part of our culture where a lot of people religiously are vegetarian or not. I think maybe that's the reason. But there was not a lot of like eat the worms and stuff, which I was very grateful for. It was a lot more, you know, cliff and falling off the cliff. And I remember there was this one which was crazy.
This 16-wheeler, which was driving at 60 miles an hour, and everyone had to take their vehicle underneath it and come out. Underneath it and come out. Yikes. It was insane. That's crazy. I didn't have to do it, which is great. I was just hosting. Yeah, we did a lot of stuff where I was like, we barely got through that without killing somebody. Yeah, and the death waivers.
Everyone had to sign a death waiver. Oh, yeah. I was like, what? Why would you do a show where you have to sign a death waiver? Yeah, and you can only win like $50,000. And you might not win.
Chapter 7: What unique challenges do actors face during intense action scenes?
You're probably not going to win. There's a bunch of other people on the show. And you could very easily get hurt. Yeah. Yeah, but people want to be famous. They want to be on TV. They're like, I want to be on TV. Yeah. Once it became popular and successful, it was really easy to get people to do it too. Everybody wanted to sign up.
But I mean, there are like protective measures, obviously, but it's... A little. We made them ride bulls. We did too. We put people on bulls. Yeah. I was... And there were a few that were like, no, I'm not doing this. I'm out. I told people not to do it. When I was talking to them off camera, I said, don't do it. I wouldn't do it. Don't do it. I would never do it. No way. But people did it.
Fuck that. Look at you. What year was this? I can't even remember. It looks like a Fear Factor scene. It is.
Chapter 8: How does technology impact our perception of reality and human connection?
I was on a helicopter. So do you know what year this was? I can't. Did it say that? It just didn't say. I don't know. I could check. Wow. Rio. I've been to that. I stood outside the helicopter as well. It was some fun stuff. Rio's amazing. Wow. That's crazy. That is so funny. It's just like Fear Factor. It's the same thing. Yeah, it's totally Fear Factor.
So what did you guys do for the second stunt if you didn't do a gross thing? You just did a second scary thing? We did scary things, mostly. Oh, wow. Well, that's probably better, honestly. I mean, there were gross things, too. There's Brazilian red-eyed deviled rats that were put all over you with tongue and eyeballs and stuff, but you didn't have to consume it. Right. It was on you. Yeah.
You didn't have to eat it. A lot of the consuming it was psychological. Yeah. You get really accustomed to it and then it's like nothing. I mean, listen, people have eaten crazy things through history, right? To stay alive. To stay alive. Yeah. And, like, if we take our mind out of, like, oh, my gosh, this is gross, then it's not.
Well, the thing is, a lot of what we were serving as gross was some people's food. Like balut. Like, my Filipino friends, they were like, bro, I eat that all the time. Like, that's crazy. That would have been no problem. This is a more updated season. What? Oh, my God. I'm telling you, it's crazy. Lions in your... What if that thing pops open?
And you got to roll that thing around with lions there? That's great. Oh, the lions are duking it out with each other? Fuck that. That's crazy. Yeah. Like I went to I recently was on Fallon and there was some bluffing game that we were doing because the movie is called A Bluff. And, you know, I said to Jimmy, I was like, I eat worms. And he was like, no way, no way you don't eat worms.
But these worms are a delicacy in Zimbabwe. And I was introduced to them. I don't know exactly the history, but I was told during segregation, you know, people, black people were put in areas that weren't very fertile. You couldn't really grow your crops and, you know, your animals. So this was a way of, like, protein.
These are these fat caterpillars, high in protein, and they're made in a curry. And when you actually eat them, it's like chicken. I'm telling you, it's like it was psychological. Yeah. But well, you know, cicadas, those things that people eat them here all the time. They bake them fried, baked. Yeah. And apparently they're delicious. I haven't had one of those, but I haven't either.
I actually did when I was. Oh, wow. That's what it looks like. Yeah. That's crazy. But look at like the they're made out of the made into a curry. I ate a tomato hornworm on Fear Factor. I ate a bunch of things when I was on the show. I was like, there's nothing going into my mouth in Fear Factor. I ate a sheep's eyeball in the first episode.
Because the first episode, I felt bad that the people were on the show. Yeah, so you were like, I'm going to. I'll eat it too. All right. And they didn't show me eating it, but I'm like, I'm going to eat it because you guys have to eat it. That's so nice. And then I ate a roach to try to convince a lady that she could eat a roach. I ate worms. I ate an Iraqi cave spider. I ate.
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