While Rise of the Planet of the Apes was disappointing, however, it is not the role that she most regrets taking. This dubious honour instead goes to Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, in which she played Dia, the subject of writer Roy’s (Josh Brolin) affections.

Pinto said Dia was nothing more “the muse, the ingenue”, leaving her little room for character building. And she told the Guardian she would never work with Allen, who has been accused of sexual assault by his daughter Dylan (he denies the allegation), again “because I’m in solidarity with women who have come out with their stories, whether they are proven or not.”

“I’m just going to stick to what my gut instinct tells me,” she added. “I’m 34 years old, I’ve worked for 11 years in this industry, I’m not desperate and I will never be desperate.”

Although she has valued working with actors such as Josh Brolin, Andy Serkis and more, Pinto’s experiences of typecasting led her to, at age 28 (she’s now 34), consider whether she really wanted to be an actress or if it was something she’d fallen into because of the success of Slumdog Millionaire.

Thankfully, she has now found some meaty roles, including Jas Mitra in TV show Guerilla, about Britain’s black power movement, and the aforementioned Love Sonia.

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Freida Pinto is taking a stand against Hollywood’s relentless typecasting