Lavrenti Lopes

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.