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Basically Dev is promoting The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel but he talked about his past work as well as his breakup with Freida Pinto.

On Mario Testino:

“I remember going to this one Burberry show, and it was exciting. They’ve always been very kind to me and, even as a gangly guy, I felt I was rocking their suits. So when I was invited to one of the fashion shows in London, I went. Even though I had this preconceived notion – ‘I’m not going to fit in with this crowd, it’s going to be intimidating’. I was sitting there, and this fellow says, ‘Are you the one dating Freida Pinto [his Slumdog co-star]?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I guess.’” He gives an embarrassed shrug. “And then he says: ‘Why? How? Why is she dating you? She’s so beautiful.’ And I say, ‘Yeah. She is!’ And then he says: ‘But you’re so, ugh, so normal-looking.’” Patel looks upset even now. It turns out it was the photographer Mario Testino.






On Skins:

“I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into,” he admits. Patel went to his local comprehensive, Whitmore High School, in Harrow. “The teachers didn’t approve of Skins and my drama teacher hated me after I got on to it.” He found himself stretched between his lessons and filming commitments in Bristol. Eventually he left school because of the hostility. “I wouldn’t say it was the Bronx or anything, but it got pretty rock’n’roll at times. The reason I got into drama in the first place was because I was funny, and that was a way not to get beaten up and keep your head above the pack. But there was a lot of aggression from some kids, who didn’t like me not being a Muslim kid but playing one.”

On Freida:

“We are incredibly close,” he cuts me off. “She’s just a really generous, patient human being who has been one of the most impactful people on my life. A lot of my motivation has come from her, from being with her and knowing her.”

On Googling himself:
“It’s a very dangerous thing,” he insists, “and confidence is very fragile – mine is. I wouldn’t dare play with it now because it’s so essential to what I do. I made the mistake of reading the papers early on, when we did Slumdog.” Before that, he was in the teen TV show Skins, “which was even crazier, because teenagers are brutal and the most shallow things are said by your peers at that age. It doesn’t matter what you do, it’s all ‘Ugh, he’s really ugly’. And it can really scar you, so I stay away from it.”




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