{"id":57621,"date":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/57621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","slug":"diana-penty-on-industry-pressure-to-change-her-personality-be-more-friendly-during-her-early-days-it-was-exhausting-to-be-somebody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/57621\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Penty on industry pressure to change her personality, be more friendly during her early days: ‘It was exhausting to be somebody…’ |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DianaDiana Penty discussed early Bollywood pressures. She was advised to be more outgoing. Diana initially tried to follow this advice. She found it exhausting to pretend. Diana then chose to embrace her true self. She accepted potential film losses for authenticity. Diana prioritized being genuine over pleasing everyone. Her upcoming project is ‘Do You Wanna Partner’. Diana Penty<\/a> recently opened up about the pressure she faced in her early Bollywood days. The actress revealed how being told to change her personality and appear more outgoing left her feeling drained \u2014 until she chose to embrace her true self.<\/p>\n

Advice to fit in<\/p>\n

In her chat with The Hollywood Reporter India, Diana looked back on the advice she often got when she entered the industry. She was told to be more approachable, present herself differently, and always say the right things.<\/p>\n

Diana Penty Spotted at Excel Office in Bandra<\/p>\n

Trying to change herself<\/p>\n

At first, Diana tried to follow all the advice, even though she\u2019s naturally shy and introverted. But pretending to be someone else quickly became exhausting. Eventually, she decided it was way better \u2014 and much happier \u2014 to just be herself.<\/p>\n

Poll<\/p>\n

Do you think changing oneself to fit into a certain role is beneficial?<\/p>\n

Choosing authenticity over approval<\/p>\n

Diana eventually decided to stop changing herself just to fit in. She accepted that if being real meant losing out on a film, she was fine with it. For her, it was much better to embrace her true side \u2014 whether that meant being sarcastic or cracking silly jokes. While there was always pressure to act extra polite and friendly, she knew keeping up that image wasn\u2019t sustainable and only left her drained.<\/p>\n

Finding peace in being herself<\/p>\n

Diana admitted that if someone chose not to cast her because of her personality, it simply meant her acting didn\u2019t matter to them \u2014 and she was fine with that. For her, staying true to herself was more important than trying to be liked by everyone. In the end, she found peace in being authentic rather than constantly trying to please others.Meanwhile, ‘Do You Wanna Partner’ stars Tamannaah Bhatia<\/a>, Diana Penty, Jaaved Jaaferi<\/a>, Nakuul Mehta<\/a>, Shweta Tiwari<\/a>, Neeraj Kabi, Sufi Motiwala, and Rannvijay Singha. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diana Penty discussed early Bollywood pressures. She was advised to be more outgoing. Diana initially tried to follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[41679,41672,41678,18,117,19,17,41673,327,41677,41675,41674,41676,41680,24885],"class_list":{"0":"post-57621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bollywood-pressures","9":"tag-diana-penty","10":"tag-do-you-wanna-partner","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jaaved-jaaferi","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-nakuul-mehta","18":"tag-rannvijay-singh","19":"tag-shweta-tiwari","20":"tag-sufi-motiwala","21":"tag-tamanaah-bhatia","22":"tag-tamannaah-bhatia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}