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DNA (January 28, 2015)

Enlarge ImageFreida Pinto says she wants her fellow L’Oreal spokesperson, actress Jane Fonda to become her BFF. Why? Because “she’ll teach me some real life lessons”, Frieda Pinto exclusively told Access Hollywood Live during an interview. She was on the show to promote her upcoming film Desert Dancer.

How close are the two actresses — separated by an age gap of several years — really? Consider this, when shown a slide of her and Fonda, Freida casually remarked, “That’s actually a nice picture of us, she’s grabbing my ass in that picture.. on the red carpet... at Cannes!”

When the hosts asked her what kind of advice, she got from Jane, the Indian actress narrated an incident wherein she saw the older actress in pain and asked her if she wanted her publicist. “You girls are so spoiled”, Fonda told her. Wondering what she had said to upset her, Frieda got her reply soon enough when Jane told her, “Back in our day, we had to get our own dresses to walk down the red carpet at the Oscar’s or other award ceremonies. we did not have people carrying our bags, helping us around and babysitting us. I will take care of myself.

Freida says she believes that it is important for every young actress to be as grounded and down-to-earth. “I just realised, ‘She’s right! We don’t need all of this. Security, publicists or whatever’. Because you’re pretty capable of doing it yourself.”