Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; August 28, 2017)

Ileana D’Cruz isn’t a method actor, but she gets completely invested in a film, especially, if it connects with her on an emotional level. “I am very sensitive and emotional,” she says. The actress, who’s gearing up for her next release talks about her sentimental side and the one scene from Baadshaho, where she broke down completely while shooting.

The last day of shoot
“I had this particular scene on the last day of the shoot. I was anyway upset and emotional because I didn’t want to leave. I had this weird attachment to Gitanjali (her character in Baadshaho), I didn’t want to stop playing her. She was like a power trip for me. I just had a moment on the last day and it’s actually based on Gitanjali’s character, who was probably at her vulnerable best. I actually broke down while doing the scene. It was one of those moments where she’s so transparent and she’s actually saying it without holding back and having that queen sort of a facade. She just spoke like a normal woman!”

How Milan reacted
“The weird thing is, Milan (Luthria) and I didn’t discuss it before we shot it. I was already in that state so I gave the shot like that. Milan felt that maybe we shouldn’t be so emotional. So I was like ‘okay’, although I was already crying (smiles). We did a few more takes the way he wanted and then he came back and said, ‘No, it works when you emotionally break down.’ So I was glad he agreed with me. On some level, I felt I had morphed into Gitanjali. The easiest way to describe her is that she’s a powerful sexy woman, who knows what she wants, knows how to get it, handling a whole city on her own and doing all of it without any man by her side.”

Not the first time
She further adds, “I have broken down so many times during Barfi. Actually, in all the emotional scenes, I was crying for real. I was in tears while filming those emotional scenes with Akshay (Kumar) in Rustom as well. I cried like a baby up to the point that it was gross. In Baadshaho, there was only this one scene.”