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"Jacqueline Fernandez has said that she doesn&amp;#039;t mind if people regard her as a sex symbol.  The actress was in the UK to attend a charity fundraiser this week as ambassador for Pratham UK.  In an interview with Digital Spy, Fernandez said: &amp;quot;I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that&amp;#039;s put up on screen, but I guess it&amp;#039;s how you see yourself.  &amp;quot;After Murder 2 it was all, &amp;#039;This is the new sex symbol&amp;#039; and I was typecast at that point, but I never kind of let it bring me down and I was able to venture into comedy and action after that as well. &amp;quot;So I think it really comes down to how you perceive yourself and I really think you shouldn&amp;#039;t have to feel that, &amp;#039;Oh my looks are bringing me down&amp;#039;. Use it to your advantage. It&amp;#039;s all in your hands.  &amp;quot;If people do want to regard me as that, that&amp;#039;s absolutely fine but I take my roles seriously and even if it&amp;#039;s small roles or anything, I give 100 %. I don&amp;#039;t let it chain me down in any way, however I am perceived.&amp;quot;       The former Miss Sri Lanka, who made her big screen debut with Aladin, said that she has been inspired by Katrina Kaif&amp;#039;s example. She explained: &amp;quot;I definitely do think Katrina has set a bench mark for a lot of people, the fact that she came into the industry and had no idea of the actual film industry of Bollywood and couldn&amp;#039;t speak the language and now she&amp;#039;s the number one actress in India. So that&amp;#039;s very inspirational to me.  &amp;quot;I love the fact that Bollywood is getting so much more globalised. Instead of us looking out there, people are looking to India and coming to us!&amp;quot; The Race 2  star also said that she would like to explore international films. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d love to venture out into some international work,&amp;quot; she added. &amp;quot;I would like to do some work in Sri Lanka as well. I&amp;#039;m looking at some scripts there, and ultimately just become international.  &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s important for me too because the fact that I came to India and didn&amp;#039;t have any idea about Bollywood and I didn&amp;#039;t know the language, and the fact that I still managed... I do see myself doing any kind of cinema, so I think it would be really interesting.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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