So when, the following year, the ABC casting executive Keli Lee flew to Mumbai to persuade Chopra to meet with her about Quantico, Chopra was hesitant. The only thing I told her was: I dont want my ethnicity to lead the part that I play, Chopra says. I want to have a job. I want to have a plot.
When Priyanka Chopra first met Keli Lee, Executive Vice President of Casting, ABC, in India along with her American manager Anjula Achari-Bath, she categorically stated that she wanted to command the same amount of screen space that she would have on Indian television or at a Bollywood awards night.
In charge of finding talent to fill these increasingly diverse roles is Keli Lee, ABC's head of casting who in 2001 started the network's diversity talent showcase, which auditions roughly 1,400 actors every year and picks the best 14 to 20 to perform at a live show for industry professionals. Acade