#2464 - Priyanka Chopra Jonas

**SPEAKER_2** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:06)
Shrink by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (0:12)
I won't lie, I am nervous to talk to you.

**Joe Rogan** (0:15)
Come on.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (0:16)
Just like me.

**Joe Rogan** (0:16)
How can you be nervous? That's ridiculous.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (0:18)
Like I came in slightly intimidated.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:20)
Why?

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (0:22)
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 think what I really enjoy about your show is just such an eclectic perspective on so many diverse things, and it comes so naturally to you. I really admire that.

**Joe Rogan** (0:41)
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.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (0:48)
It's just stuff that I'm interested in. That's nice. Well, thank you for picking me.

**Joe Rogan** (0:51)
Oh, my pleasure. I'm excited to talk to you. Your movie is fucking crazy. Like I knew it was a pirate movie, but I just did not expect the ultraviolence. Like from the beginning, I was like, yo, like I locked in immediately. I was like first scene. I was like, holy shit. Like this is crazy.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (1:11)
Well, thank you. That was that good thing, right?

**Joe Rogan** (1:13)
To fit me is it when you're doing something that's that hyper violent, like is that 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.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (1:27)
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 Reed, like a few famous ones, Ching Shih after I did my research. But like in those moments, you're like, this stuff must have been, 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.

**Joe Rogan** (2:34)
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 there's so much choreography. There's like, he's gonna swing this way and you're gonna block it and you're gonna dive down. It's like, it's so complex. Like these are long extended fight scenes.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (2:54)
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 oner. But I come from Bollywood movies, so we have a lot of choreography for dance sequences where stories are also moving forward between 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.

**Joe Rogan** (3:40)
Right. That makes sense.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (3:42)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (3:42)
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 and swords.

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (3:51)
I had never worked with blades before this movie, though. That was cool.

**Joe Rogan** (3:54)
How much training did you have to do? Like, when you found out that you're going to take the role?

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (3:59)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (4:00)
How much preparation did you have to do physically to get ready for all that stuff?

**Priyanka Chopra Jonas** (4:04)
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 the, you know, 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 Carl Urban, my co-actor, had, casual, learned how to do sword fights in The Lord of the Rings. So he was amazing at it. So in that last duel, I didn't want to be any less than. So I went at it.