In its sixth annual Women in TV issue, renowned fashion magazine Elle has honoured the most popular women on TV currently by featuring five diverse female actors, including Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra.
The actor, who made her Hollywood TV debut with Quantico and recently took home the People’s Choice Award, looked ravishing in the magazine’s February issue.
She immediately took to Twitter to thank Elle:
Apart from PeeCee, the unprecedented covers also defied racism by featuring two other women of colour — Viola Davis and Golden Globe Winner Taraji P Hensen.
Olivia Wilde and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are also among the five cover stars who have raised the bar by highlighting critical issues in their stories, such as gender stereotypes and aging in Hollywood.
Here’s how these ladies are slaying with their looks and words:
Priyanka Chopra
The Quantico star opened up about gender discrimination saying, “Why should a woman have to pick between global domination and having the love of her life?”
Viola Davis
The How to Get Away With Murder star spoke about sexism. ”We’ve been fed a whole slew of lies about women.” By TV standards, “if you are anywhere above a size 2 and if you’re of a certain age, you’re off the table.”
Taraji P Henson
The actor starred as Cookie on Fox series Empire. She opened up about how she didn’t want her role to be typecasted. ”It was very important to me that [Cookie Lyon] not be sassy and neck-rollin’ and eye-bulgin’ and attitude all the time. Everything she does is coming from a place of fighting for her family. That’s why she’s not a caricature.”
Olivia Wilde
“One day all these people were bowing down to me and throwing free clothes at me and telling me I was the best thing since sliced bread, and the next day…all of that disappeared. That was great for an 18-year-old to learn, and I will never again take the BS seriously,” said Olivia — who will be seen in upcoming HBO series Vinyl — on short-lived fame.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia showed excitement on playing a pivotal role in the HBO seriesVeep. “Go to the movies—how many good scripts are you really seeing out there? How many good, meaty roles are there for women within those scripts? Not tons of them. Right now there are so many [TV] shows on with strong, complicated, powerful, not-so-powerful, interesting human beings who are women. And I am thrilled to be playing one of them.”
