Richa Chadha says she drank alcohol to perform Heeramandi dance sequence after she couldn’t get it right in 40 takes: ‘It made things worse’

 

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The actor said when she tried dancing after drinking, she realised she was better off pretending to be drunk, as she had more control on her dance and performance that way.

“If you have grown up in that world, with poetry, music and dance, it is going to be your second nature. So, I tried drinking on the first day of my solo song, but it didn’t work for me. I was better off pretending to be drunk than actually getting a little tipsy. It is a technical job, no matter how much I dance, my dress is so heavy, I have to hit that mark, interact. It was fun for me to do.”

Which is why, Richa said, she I can’t do method acting because she is “already too much into it”. The actor said, “I can safely say that for every scene I have done on this show, and I know there aren’t too many, I was 100 percent into it. I was not distracted while giving cues also to someone else, I was not out of character even when I was dancing. It took a lot from me, but I loved it.”