Freida Pinto | Mert & Marcus | Interview Magazine August 2011

One hundred words into Frieda Pinto’s Interview Magazine chat with Tim Blanks, we learn that the 2008 Slumdog Millionaire actress still calls Mumbai ‘Bombay’;

 … four years into her filmography, she’s already worked with a handful of the world’s most adventurous and discerning directors. This year alone she has veered from the intensity of Julian Schnabel’s Israeli-Palestinian political drama Miral and the upcoming Middle-East epic of oil Black Gold, through the CGI-and-testosterone-loaded fantasy of Immortals, in which she plays a Greek priestess, to this month’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where she plays a primatologist, opposite James Franco …

and that her co-star Juliano Mer-Khamis from ‘Miral’ was murdered in the West Bank in April.

After that introduction, these Mert & Marcus images of Freida Pinto introduce us to a strong-willed, fabulously talented, politically-aware woman. How refreshing! Read on at Interview.