Samantha Ruth Prabhu may have “begged” director duo Raj & DK to move on and cast someone else as Honey in their upcoming spy thriller show Citadel: Honey Bunny . Her myositis diagnosis had gotten the better of her in that moment, but the actor was destined to play the parallel lead in the show because of how eerily similar her life was to that of her character's. (Also Read – Samantha Ruth Prabhu says she asked Raj-DK to find her replacement after myositis diagnosis: ‘Begged them to move on’ ) Samantha on similarities with Honey “I think there are a lot of my real-life experiences in Honey.
When I was narrated the role, it was almost freaky how much of my real life was in Honey. So for my performance, I was drawing a lot from my life and what my past experiences were, my childhood was. A lot of that has made it to my performance,” Samantha says in an exclusive interview.
One can see glimpses of that in a key scene in the first episode, in which Honey, a struggling actor in ‘90s Bollywood, tells her confidant and stunt instructor Bunnny (Varun Dhawan) how she wants to give up on her dream of making it big in movies because she’s just not getting her place in the sun. Samantha agrees that as an outsider navigating the Telugu film industry in 2000s, she also had similar moments of self-doubt, before she got her breakthrough with Gautham Vasudev Menon's 2010 romantic drama Ye Maaya Chesave. She also insists that the similarities with Honey transcend professional.
