Every film finds a home, and Sunny Leone’s Kennedy has found one after a three-year wait. Director Anurag Kashyap’s neo-noir crime thriller is set to premiere on ZEE5 next week, and the actor can’t wait to see the audience’s response to it. After all, Leone considers Kennedy an opportunity of a lifetime. She remembers going into the shoot, eager to be moulded by Kashyap into her character Charlie. Oddly, that included mastering a peculiar laugh.

Recalling Kashyap’s strange demand from her, Leone said, “Anurag sir sent me reference videos of how Charlie’s laugh should be. I saw the videos and thought, ‘How am I going to do this?’ Then I started practising laughing everywhere I went — in the plane, in the car, even mid-conversation with somebody! I remember I was on the set of a song, dressed in glamorous clothes, with 100 dancers around me, and I was practising my laugh!”

Sunny Leone in the film

That naturally makes us curious about who featured in the reference videos. But Leone isn’t one to spill the details. She teased, “I’ll give you a hint. The reference video was of two beautiful, amazing actresses in Bollywood. [Their] laugh is loud and unabashed, comes straight from the gut and the heart.”
Unabashed is also how many would describe Kashyap. But the actor, who worked for the first time with the director, asserted that he is different from his public image. “We look at his films or an interview and have a perception, but that is not what you get when you meet him. 

He is warm. He is like a big teddy bear, and so easy to work with. He makes you feel heard, seen, and values your opinions.”

Feb 20
When the film drops on ZEE5