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Freida Pinto: Finding fame at 23 was like being Alice in Wonderland

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Freida Pinto says that finding fame so young was like "being Alice in Wonderland. " The 37-year-old actress was an unknown model when she was chosen by Danny Boyle to star as Latika in his multi-Academy Award-winning drama film 'Slumdog Millionaire' and admitted she could only deal with the sudden fame by deciding that she was "chosen" for it.

She said: "When you get plucked out of obscurity and get thrown into this completely new world, like an 'Alice in Wonderland' effect - you don't what you're doing there and you don't even know why you're there but you are there and you're going to make the most of it.

Life ios all about grabbing those moments and having fun with them. When I think about myself back then, I was 23 years old walking down the red carpet and Meryl Streep walked by, I was like 'What happened?!' You just kind of go 'There must be a reason why I'm here.

I was chosen to do this and I am going to embrace this moment and own it because it could happen to someone else but it's not someone else.

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