Priyanka Chopra chatted with “Further’s” Terri Seymour about her new spy thriller sequence “Citadel.”

Priyanka additionally gushed about daughter Malti Marie’s first journey to India, which was a part of her press tour for the sequence.

Chopra kicked off the press tour in Mumbai. She shared, “It was so candy. It was very emotional for me, you recognize, that that we kicked off this complete world tour in Mumbai. I used to be sitting proper subsequent to Richard [Madden] and my mother and was surrounded by family and friends and trade folks which have seen me since I used to be 18 years previous… It was poignant and actually emotional for me. And ‘Citadel’ is a sum of my 22 years within the enterprise. It’s all the things that I’ve realized and all the things that I do know… It’s one thing I’m very happy with and hopefully individuals will benefit from the present as a lot as we take pleasure in it.”

Priyanka revealed that Malti “loves” Mumbai, saying, “She liked all the things about it. From the sights to the sounds, to the meals to, you recognize, going to her nanny’s home, which is my mother’s home.”

Chopra is now in London, the place she obtained to see husband Nick Jonas and his band The Jonas Brothers carry out on the Royal Albert Corridor. She commented, “It wasn’t as happenstance as that… I’m filming a film this summer time referred to as ‘Heads of State’ with Idris Elba and John Cena, and we had been additionally supposed to do that world tour for ‘Citadel,’ which included London as our large world premiere. And, you recognize, the brothers are clearly releasing their new album, referred to as ‘The Album,’ in Might as nicely, so that they’re additionally doing a tour… I believe all of us collectively tried to determine in our workforce, how we will spend most time collectively and plan our excursions collectively… Our groups had been capable of pull it off, which is nice and Royal Albert Corridor rocked. It was such a tremendous venue anyway, however that was such a particular present.”

As for “Citadel,” she defined the premise, saying, “Citadel is a world spy company that has no loyalty to any nation. It has loyalty to humanity. So it stops wars, it stops, like, terrorism, shootings, all undercover and in secrecy. So nobody is aware of of its existence. However you will have Citadel spies everywhere in the world, which helps us create our present, which is the one that you simply watched, after which there’s an Indian present and an Italian present as nicely, and all of their tales are related. So it’s really a world franchise which is totally unique, not primarily based on something. And it’s fairly huge.”

Within the film, she performs a feminine spy named Nadia. Of her action-packed position, she famous, “Our characters will not be superheroes, they’re actual individuals, they’re spies, so I actually needed to see that… I needed the viewer to really feel, you recognize, like I obtained a slamming once I get a slamming as a substitute of it feeling clear and medical, which it may well really feel generally and particularly with feminine stunt scenes, you recognize, it may be a little bit like heroic the place I needed to essentially for it to really feel down and soiled so that you perceive the stakes at which Nadia is performing.”

She went on, “It takes a number of precision and follow to have the ability to, you recognize, punch somebody at, you recognize, your full power after which cease earlier than you’re taking out their nostril and for it to promote that stuff… We labored with unbelievable consultants, our stunt crew. The a number of stunt crews that we labored with had labored on probably the most wonderful motion pictures on this planet, and so I actually relied on them.”

Because of the intense stunts, Chopra’s physique was “battered, bruised, in ache for at the least a 12 months and a half.”

Regardless of the ache, it was all price it for Priyanka. She stated, “David Weil says the spy house has been monopolized by males for the longest time. They usually needed this present to have a feminine, you recognize, doing the physicality of the sequence and due to her talent set and needed it to be a spy duo that had been toe to toe with one another. In order that was simply additionally very new anyway within the style that doesn’t actually exist very a lot. There are only a few girls which have loved that that type of company in, you recognize, their casting. In order that was actually wonderful for me.”

Whereas she didn’t create the character, she obtained her “model of a feminine Bond.”