Freida Pinto is almost unrecognizable both on the cover and for her editorial in Interview magazine’s August 2011 issue.

She was captured by Mert & Marcus oozes sexiness wearing Stella McCartney, Versace and Christopher Kane.

The Indian beauty talks about her career, what she takes away from a film, her family, and falling for her ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ co-star, Dev Patel.

You can read the whole interview with Tim Blanks at InterviewMagazine.com.

Here are some extracts:

On having to audition a lot before Slumdog Millionaire: “Yes, I did. And I was rejected at almost every one of them. [laughs] One person said, ‘She doesn’t look too Indian.’”

On calling it Bombay and not Mumbai like everybody else: “God, I get that all the time. I’m just so used to calling it Bombay. I know everything has changed. It’s India’s way of trying to brush off colonialism and make it what it originally was, but unfortunately for me I called it Bombay for 16 years, and I think that’s a long time in a 26-year-old’s life to automatically start calling it Mumbai. It’s very confusing for a lot of people. My agent thought Bombay and Mumbai were two different places. And I was like, “No, it’s the same thing.”” Read more…