Liverpool girl Amy Jackson talked about her experience of working in the Indian film industry, raising funds for charities, fitness secrets and her upcoming projects in a candid interview with British luxury fashion brand The Outnet.

The 28-year-old actress was speaking from North London where she is living with her partner George Panayiotou and the couple’s baby boy Andreas who celebrated his first birthday on 23 September this year.

Jackson recalled her memories of winning the Miss Teen World beauty pageant in America in 2009 when she was 16 which she believed had “opened a lot of doors for her” and landed her a role in the Tamil-language period-drama Madrasapattinam where she played a British governor’s daughter despite having no prior acting experience.

The actress has since worked on a number of Tamil, Telugu and Hindi-language films, and also on the American TV series Supergirl.

Amy was last seen on the silver screen in 2018’s Tamil-Hindi science-fiction thriller “2.0” in which she played a robot.

Comparing her Hollywood filming experience with Indian cinema, Jackson said she was filming up to seven scenes a day in the former when compared to “more chilled” Indian films where she was only filming one scene a day and the focus was more on perfecting the scene than completing that scene within a specified timespan.

She mentioned a Tamil-Hindi film “Ai” that the actress worked for over five years with leading Indian director Shankar who she said “does things on a big scale”.

Amy also talked about her work with PETA and the Elephant Family to “address the human-animal conflict in India”, following which she had taken “ethical choices” like giving up horse riding, changing her diet to vegan and going gluten-free with her make up.

In the middle of the interview, Jackson was interrupted by her adorable pet dog Herbi who the actress referred to as her “first-born fairy child.”

Reflecting on the year so far, the actress said it’s been “a self-development kind of year” and that she had substituted everything in her fridge with vegan options.

Talking about her fitness, the actress said she would keep switching her fitness regimes to make them exciting and does a lot of Astanga yoga because it’s “intense, therapeutic and feels like a proper workout” and “kept me sane during lockdown”. The Liverpudlian also reflected on how meditation changed her life and made her “lot more balanced, mentally well and grounded”, and she does it every morning for at least ten minutes.

Jackson mentioned about the Mumbai-based charity organisation Sneha Sagar Orphanage in Mumbai that she joined forces with in 2016 Christmas to help poor and underprivileged girls with their education costs.

On a work front, Amy Jackson has revealed that she has landed a role in a new Indian film that she is “excited about” and playing a “villain” and a “British wannabe actress”. The film is set to be formally announced next week and filming is expected to commence shortly in Chennai, India.

The actress is also collaborating with wildlife photographer and environmentalist Aaron ‘Bertie’ Gekoski, who she met on Instagram, on a documentary series centered around human-animal conflict.

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