The 37-year-old actor, who divides her time between India and the UK, was most not too long ago seen within the ZEE5 movie Mrs Undercover, through which she performs Durga, a housewife who’s a spy.

“It is difficult these days to find that good script as everyone is making everything so fast, there are lots of other parameters that have to fit in. It is difficult to find roles that you just wholeheartedly go and feel this is so well crafted,” Apte advised PTI in a digital interview.

“I live in two countries. I work when I want to do work. I don’t do a lot of work because it makes me feel quite exhausted, so I select less work, I like it that way. When I don’t work, I write, read, and do things other than acting,” she added.

Then, there are moments when she worries about turning down a job as a result of she wonders if the initiatives will hold coming.

“I just say, ‘I don’t feel like doing the part right now.’ It is hard to reject because sometimes you don’t have anything else and you feel, ‘Will I get work?’ As a freelance actor, you are constantly thinking about your next project, it can be scary but it is ok.”

Known for movies similar to Badlapur, Phobia, Andhadhun, and Monica, O My Darling, Radhika Apte stated her function in Mrs Undercover is a departure from the extreme roles she is understood for.

“You at all times attempt to discover roles which might be totally different from what you will have completed earlier than. So, that’s intentional. When I used to be approached for this, they (makers) didn’t have a script, they’d an concept.

“I liked the idea about a housewife being an undercover spy and finding out that she has much more to do in life, and that she deserves much more than her husband’s treatment. And this was a comedy spy thriller, it’s a genre I have never seen, so I was quite excited about it,” she added.

The actor stated she loved doing stunts for the ZEE5 movie, directed by debutante Anushree Mehta.

“It is a new thing for me, it was fun to do because I had never done it before. There is clumsiness to it, there is proper action at times (too). It was a lot of fun,” she stated.

Radhika Apte, who beforehand performed actual life British undercover agent of Indian descent Noor Inayat Khan within the 2019 American spy drama A Call to Spy, stated there’s a “wave” of spy movies at the moment.

“Everybody is making spy films, which is fine, it will come and go. There is always a wave of something, biopics, romance, action, etc, different genres, different things coming and going, so it is probably one of them,” she stated.

Some of current examples of spy movies embrace Pathaan, Mission Majnu in addition to internet collection The Night Manager and Special Ops.

“It is a thing that everybody wants to watch right now, it is exciting and adventurous. But we have had spy stories for a long time, we have grown up watching different spy stories, mysteries and whodunnits. As I said, the genres come and go,” she added.