National award-winning actress, Kalki Koechlin opened up about the choices she made in her personal life, and recalled getting criticised for having a child out of wedlock.
Kalki Koechlin is one of the most talented actresses of her generation. She has done a commendable share of films, including Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Margarita With A Straw, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Shanghai, Gully Boy among so many others. Although a French citizen, she has been brought up and has lived most of her life in India. A National Award recipient, Kalki was previously married to filmmaker, Anurag Kashyap. However, post their divorce in 2015, she started dating an Israeli musician, Guy Hershberg. In 2020, Kalki and Guy welcomed their daughter, Sappho out of wedlock.
In a recent interaction with Mashable India, Kalki Koechlin opened up about her personal life. She spoke about the immense trolling and criticism she faced, after she gave birth to her daughter, Sappho out of wedlock and not marriage. Giving an apt response to it all, Kalki simply mentioned how she was a divorcee and that her beau was not interested in getting married. Nevertheless, their decision to have a child was a conscious one. In her words:
“Not being married…I was already divorced. He was like, ‘I’m not interested in marriage.’ So we just took a conscious decision not to marry but we were living together.”
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In one of her earlier interviews with Siddhaarth Aalambayan on the show, The Male Feminist, Kalki Koechlin revealed how during her initial years in the city, she was often mistaken as a white girl, and so she was often enquired for carrying drugs with her. Moreover, she revealed how the minute she used to start speaking fluently in Tamil, these people immediately changed their tones and started to refer her as akka. She mentioned:
“I saw it very young because I was asked for drugs. Because I was the only white girl in my group so it was about loose morals, the white girls’ phenomenon. They watch Baywatch and think everyone is like that. The minute I would answer back in Tamil, they would be like Akka, sister. Suddenly their perspective of you changes just because you speak in their language."
In the same interview, Kalki spoke about that one time, when she had a very near experience with casting couch in the film industry. She recalled how back in the day, she was called for an audition for a film, which she herself was rooting for. However, when she got to meet the producer finally, the latter immediately asked her out for dinner and convinced that the chances of her landing the project based if she went for the dinner. Kalki, soon understood the illicit indications and walked out of the place.
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In one of her previous interviews with Zoom, Kalki Koechlin had remarked about how her equation with her beau, Guy Hershberg changed after they welcomed their baby girl, Sappho. She spoke about how their chemistry changed and evolved completely, and overall have landed in a better space. In her words:
“We are constantly competing for romantic-ness. No, it's not the same. I've become a parent. Hello, where's our sex life. It's gone. It's like bye bye, what is that. It's like forgotten. It's been a tough year. They say that first two, three of having children, 80 per cent of couples go through therapy or break up. We haven't done either of those things, but it's been tough. We're getting into a better place since Sappho is less needy.”
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