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EPISODE · Jan 20, 2025 · 7 MIN

'Breaking into Bollywood' - American Actor in India Zachary Coffin | Voice of America Documentary

from Zachary Coffin Podcast - On Starting Over, India Rising, Global Entertainment and More · host ZACHARY COFFIN

Documentary Short on Zachary Coffin | 'Breaking into Bollywood' | American Actor in India | VoA+ 52 Documentary -- Short doc about my adventures in Mumbai! :) As broadcaster ⁠ VOANews puts it -- "In this short documentary, Coffin describes in gushing detail how he has lived up to the part." -- Watch in HD at -- https://youtu.be/ea6cX6-l-Mw -- 'Breaking into Bollywood' made its streaming debut on OTT platform VOA+ on May 26, 2022.​ https://www.voanews.com/a/breaking-into-bollywood/6589049.html -- Many thanks to the '52 Documentary' Team from Voice of America (VOA/VOA+) -- Producer Juliane Wilkinson Camera Kedar Sonigra Editor Justin Goncalves Senior Executive Producer Euna Lee Commissioning Editor Jun Stinson -- Partial Transcript: "The more successful the villain, the more successful the movie. 70% of the acting work I've done here has been British Raj, arrogant officers. Or, you know, evil drug dealers from America. Or Russian scientist. It's something. You get the point? It's like the inverse of Hollywood. For years and years, Hollywood made the other people villains. And Americans were like the heroes. Well, as you might expect, Indians want to be heroes in their own movies. And the white guy, For some good colonial reasons -- let's put it that way -- is viewed sometimes as the evil guy. And I guess I had that look Hi, my name is Zachary coffin and I am an actor. I grew up in San Francisco and then I moved to New York and then to L.A. Then I did a lot of traveling. I worked in about 30 countries as a consultant -- and not as an actor -- before I ended up in India. Mumbai is an amazing city. It's the second densest city in the world. And it's mostly migrants. 75% of the people who live here have come from somewhere else. And so you have this enormous energy of people who want to do something. They've got dreams. And they're living in the jungle. Even though there's concrete and all that, it's a city, but it's really a thousand villages. It's all squished together. A day in the life in India is not like any other day. India is so full of uncertainty. And then I'm an actor. And being in the entertainment industry is also full of uncertainty. So it's kind of like exponential levels of uncertainty. It's nerve- wracking and exhilarating and stressful, but something in me enjoys it." -- Released by Voice of America (VOA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAtfddaoFs "52 Documentary is a new weekly documentary series of Voice of America (VOA), the largest U.S. international broadcaster, providing news and information in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of 236.8 million people. VOA produces content for digital, television, and radio platforms. It is easily accessed via your mobile phone and on social media. Since its creation in 1942, VOA has been committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the news and telling audiences the truth. VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press." -- #Bollywood #documentary #ZacharyCoffin #VOA #VOA+ #VoiceOfAmerica #voanews #shortdoc #52Documentary #docu #doc #BreakingIntoBollywood #Mumbai #India #actor #profile #foreigner #firang #gora #evilwhiteguy ;) -- Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ZacharyCoffinPage #ZC #ZacharyCoffin (#ZC/#ZackCoffin/#ZACK/#ज़ैक/#ज़ैकरीकॉफिन/#ஸ்ஸேக்/#ذکي/#ЗахариКоффин/#ザッカリーコッフィン/#高富成) Bio here -- https://m.IMDb.com/name/nm1882579/Bio https://m.IMDb.com/name/nm1882579/Trivia Credits & Pics: http://www.IMDb.me/ZacharyCoffin http://www.Instagram.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.Facebook.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.YouTube.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.SnapChat.com/add/ZacharyCoffin http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/ZacharyCoffin http://www.Twitter.com/ZacharyCoffin http://ZacharyCoffin.Tumblr.com -- *Fair Use/Fair Dealing of Footage for Non-Fiction Documentation of Career*

Documentary Short on Zachary Coffin | 'Breaking into Bollywood' | American Actor in India | VoA+ 52 Documentary -- Short doc about my adventures in Mumbai! :) As broadcaster ⁠ VOANews puts it -- "In this short documentary, Coffin describes in gushing detail how he has lived up to the part." -- Watch in HD at -- https://youtu.be/ea6cX6-l-Mw -- 'Breaking into Bollywood' made its streaming debut on OTT platform VOA+ on May 26, 2022.​ https://www.voanews.com/a/breaking-into-bollywood/6589049.html -- Many thanks to the '52 Documentary' Team from Voice of America (VOA/VOA+) -- Producer Juliane Wilkinson Camera Kedar Sonigra Editor Justin Goncalves Senior Executive Producer Euna Lee Commissioning Editor Jun Stinson -- Partial Transcript: "The more successful the villain, the more successful the movie. 70% of the acting work I've done here has been British Raj, arrogant officers. Or, you know, evil drug dealers from America. Or Russian scientist. It's something. You get the point? It's like the inverse of Hollywood. For years and years, Hollywood made the other people villains. And Americans were like the heroes. Well, as you might expect, Indians want to be heroes in their own movies. And the white guy, For some good colonial reasons -- let's put it that way -- is viewed sometimes as the evil guy. And I guess I had that look Hi, my name is Zachary coffin and I am an actor. I grew up in San Francisco and then I moved to New York and then to L.A. Then I did a lot of traveling. I worked in about 30 countries as a consultant -- and not as an actor -- before I ended up in India. Mumbai is an amazing city. It's the second densest city in the world. And it's mostly migrants. 75% of the people who live here have come from somewhere else. And so you have this enormous energy of people who want to do something. They've got dreams. And they're living in the jungle. Even though there's concrete and all that, it's a city, but it's really a thousand villages. It's all squished together. A day in the life in India is not like any other day. India is so full of uncertainty. And then I'm an actor. And being in the entertainment industry is also full of uncertainty. So it's kind of like exponential levels of uncertainty. It's nerve- wracking and exhilarating and stressful, but something in me enjoys it." -- Released by Voice of America (VOA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAtfddaoFs "52 Documentary is a new weekly documentary series of Voice of America (VOA), the largest U.S. international broadcaster, providing news and information in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of 236.8 million people. VOA produces content for digital, television, and radio platforms. It is easily accessed via your mobile phone and on social media. Since its creation in 1942, VOA has been committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the news and telling audiences the truth. VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press." -- #Bollywood #documentary #ZacharyCoffin #VOA #VOA+ #VoiceOfAmerica #voanews #shortdoc #52Documentary #docu #doc #BreakingIntoBollywood #Mumbai #India #actor #profile #foreigner #firang #gora #evilwhiteguy ;) -- Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ZacharyCoffinPage #ZC #ZacharyCoffin (#ZC/#ZackCoffin/#ZACK/#ज़ैक/#ज़ैकरीकॉफिन/#ஸ்ஸேக்/#ذکي/#ЗахариКоффин/#ザッカリーコッフィン/#高富成) Bio here -- https://m.IMDb.com/name/nm1882579/Bio https://m.IMDb.com/name/nm1882579/Trivia Credits & Pics: http://www.IMDb.me/ZacharyCoffin http://www.Instagram.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.Facebook.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.YouTube.com/ZacharyCoffinPage http://www.SnapChat.com/add/ZacharyCoffin http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/ZacharyCoffin http://www.Twitter.com/ZacharyCoffin http://ZacharyCoffin.Tumblr.com -- *Fair Use/Fair Dealing of Footage for Non-Fiction Documentation of Career*

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