Janhvi Kapoor Shares How Shooting In A Freezer For ‘Mili’ Affected Her Mental Health. It’s Giving Us The Chills!
An actor’s life looks so glamorous on the outside, doesn’t it? The money, the fancy clothes, the makeup, the spotlight and the luxury that comes with the profession are often blinding. But when we hear about stories from actors who have had to go through so much to perfect their role in a particular movie, we realise that all that glitters is not gold. And the most recent actress to give a reality check on the same is Janhvi Kapoor. The 25-year-old actress is going to star in the first survival thriller film of her career, titled Mili. In a recent press conference, she shared her ordeal of what she had to go through while shooting for the film, and it gave us chills!
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In her appearance on The Bombay Journey, Janhvi Kapoor said that she had to spend 15 hours a day in an actual freezer while shooting for Mili. She said, “We’d end up spending about 15 hours a day inside that freezer and between shots, I’d go out because it was minus 15 degrees (inside the freezer).” She also said that when one shoots in such confined spaces at such uncomfortable temperatures, it tends to ‘mess’ with the head. Shedding light on her experience, Janhvi said that she had begun hallucinating at one point.
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Janhvi Kapoor also talked about how shooting for the film affected her mental health. She said that when she would go to sleep after returning home from the filming, she would dream of being trapped in a freezer. She further talked about how she fell sick while shooting for Mili and had to be kept on painkillers as well.
Also read: ‘Mili’ Trailer: Janhvi Kapoor’s Convincing Performance Stuck In Freezer Makes Us Look Forward To This Survival Thriller!
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It is reality checks like these that make us, the outsiders, understand the toll it takes on the actors’ mental and physical health. We do not tend to give it much thought because we only see what is presented on the screen. But rarely are we made aware of the hard work that went into the making of what is there on the screen. I am glad that Janhvi Kapoor addressed this. We wish more actors did so, too.
