EXCLUSIVE: I was getting offered the same thing, felt stagnated: Jennifer Winget reveals why she takes up fewer projects

Jennifer Winget has enjoyed a level of success on TV that very few actors get to experience in their whole careers. With shows like Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Dill Mill Gaye and Beyhadh to her credit, Jennifer has been one of the most sought-after TV actresses in the country. But even after all the success, the actress has chosen her roles quite meticulously and in a recent conversation for Her Story with Bollywood Bubble, she opened up about the same.

 

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When asked about the kind of work coming her way, Jennifer Winget said, “It’s stagnant. It’s not a task anymore and that’s the problem. I love a good task but when it stops being a task is when I am like I am done from here and that’s what happened after Beyhadh. That was like a turning point in my career because till then, I had always played the goody-two-shoes characters, the bahu, the beti and all that comes with it and I was okay with it.”

 

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She shared that it was the uniqueness of Beyhadh that made her say yes to it. “When Beyhadh was narrated to me, they told me that she (her character Maya) dies in the end and I was like wow. That is what made me do the show that she dies in the end. Because till then, in my head, I was also thinking that it sounds like a nice show and I want to do it, but on TV if you play the antagonist, vamp bana denge aap ko. That’s what I have also grown up on and seen all my life. There is hero, heroine and villain, iske alawa kuch nahi hai judge sahab. So, I felt like if it does not do well, at least I will die, plus the show sounded great. So, I did that show and it was in 2016 and that’s when I fell in love with acting. When I played that character, I swear I did not know if I was capable of playing a character like that as it had so many layers to it. I have enjoyed every moment of working on that set, just the joy of going back to work and being that character,” she aversed.

 

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Talking about the show’s success, Jennifer revealed that it kind of limited the kind of roles coming her way. “When it was received so amazingly, that just kind of gave me a validation and encouragement and motivated me to do not just those but different kind of roles. I got lucky that I made that shift from playing the good girl to the gray girl. I did this well and I did that well. But what happened after this is that I kept getting the same kind of gray characters but I felt like I don’t have anything more to give to it,” she insisted.

 

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When mentioned that TV tends to put actors in a box, Jennifer had a befitting reply. “I don’t care. If I see myself on TV and suppose I am doing Monica in Code M and see even a similarity of Maya in Monica, that pisses me off. If I am watching it as an audience, I am like she is doing the same thing that she did in that role. I don’t like that and that’s why I don’t do a lot of work because the kind of work that gets offered to me is unfortunately the same kind that I have been doing. I want to keep reinventing, I want to keep challenging myself and do different kind of roles so that I also learn. I don’t know if I will be good at it but I am okay to fail,” she concluded.

 

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Jennifer has raised the bar of TV with her iconic performances and no matter what she does, she indeed has a midas touch.

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