Ramona Rosales/Refinery29Daniel Craig might have been the last James Bond, but Priyanka Chopra is ready to take over the role.
The Quantico actress is Refinery29's latest (Un)Cover star and opens up about her desire to be the next James Bond. To be clear, she doesn't want to be the next Bond Girl, she has her eye on the actual international (wo)man of mystery. "Look. It's a story about a British guy who happens to be a white dude. There's nothing wrong with that, whoever came up with it,'" she says.
"And not Jane," she adds. "She should be James Bond, and she should be able to sell it. Why not?"
But Chopra will next appear on the big screen in Dwayne Johnson's remake of Baywatch. In the movie, the brunette bombshell will play the villain, and she couldn't be more excited to use her feminine powers in a "delectable and evil" way. "I'm this gorgeous bombshell in couture on the beach," she tells Refinery29. "This was so much fun, because it was not like a badass villain who's getting into a fight. This was a woman using her woman skills to be a villain."
Chopra transitioned from being a Bollywood star to a Hollywood star in what seems like a blink of an eye, but despite her personal successes, she still says there's improvement to be done for all women. "I know everything is about diversity right now. But I think it should be about humanity. It's 2016. It's so easy to separate ourselves and become smaller and smaller pieces of humanity," she explains.
"I don't like the phrase 'woman of color.' I feel like that puts women in a box," she adds. "I'm a woman, whether I'm white, black, brown, green, blue, or pink—whatever. I think we need to start looking beyond that. It would be a big win for women, period."
There is one woman in particular Chopra sees as an icon for women: Dame Helen Mirren.
"How epic was she," Chopra asks, rhetorically. "That's what feminism is. Don't judge me for being me, just like you don't judge the boys. That's what we all want—equality in treatment."