Nora Fatehi was asked if she wanted to be ‘the next Katrina Kaif’, was put in ‘scary situations’ while looking for opportunities

Nora said that even if they introduced her to the right people, they would always have some kind of expectation from her. She recalled, “It put me in really scary situations where, in the end, the person would be like ‘C’mon, what am I going to get out of this?’ and that led me into these scary situations where I either had to fight that person or it was really weird…”

After some of these experiences, Nora learnt that she can never show that she is “desperate” for an opportunity, as this is what such people thrived on. She added, “That taught me not be desperate, not to give desperate vibes because the minute you give desperate vibes, people will really use that to their advantage. So I stopped telling people I really want to act. I started to change my words and I would be like ‘yeah, I would love to but if it doesn’t work out, I can go back home and finish university and be a lawyer’.”

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Nora said that this phase of her life was tough on her mental health and she sought therapy. She said that people often asked her if she wanted to be the “next Katrina Kaif” like it was an impossible dream. “I did seek therapy because when you get a lot of rejection, which I got a lot, a lot of you are not good enough, a lot of ‘you want to be the next Katrina Kaif?’ and I was like ‘this is terrible’,” she said and recalled that despite having a thick skin, this phase was extremely tough on her.