00:00Take that beta blocker, girl.
00:02Hi, I'm Priyanka Kadia, and I'm on InStyle's 2026 Breakthrough List.
00:06I worked at a deep dish pizza restaurant.
00:09Food service is no joke, but I loved it.
00:11When I was five, I was in this dance class where we had to come dressed up as our dream
00:15jobs for a recital.
00:16On stage, it was a row of, like, little doctors and lab coats, and then it was me in a
00:21sparkly pink cheerleader costume.
00:23Just full-out lip syncing to the song.
00:25Naomi Scott is having this, like, re-emergence right now as she transitions into music, and I'm obsessed with her
00:31new record, Fig.
00:32My dream would be Paul W. Downs and Megan Stalter at the same time.
00:36Or maybe Paul is me and Meg is, like, the inner monologue.
00:39When I got my first commercial paycheck, I took my parents out for dinner at a Michelin star restaurant and
00:44to a Broadway show, and that felt really, really cool to be able to do.
00:47Easy A, starring Emma Stone.
00:50She's got everything I need.
00:51When someone asked Rachel Sennett what she says to herself in the mirror before a red carpet, and she goes,
00:57take that beta blocker, girl.
00:59I'm on French TikTok.
01:01My whole feed is just in French right now.
01:04And they're like, cuckoo.
01:05Cuckoo, mes amis.
01:06Like, it's so cute.
01:07Tyla in the, like, sand dress at the Met Gala a few years ago.
01:12My family, of course, but also my high school drama teacher and my Shakespeare scene study teacher in university.
01:19I think teaching is such a thankless job, but having a teacher that believes in you more than you do
01:25can really change the course of your life, and it absolutely did for me.
01:29So I called my mom and my dad, and they actually thought something horrible had happened because I was sobbing.
01:36So then when I told them Steven Spielberg had cast me in a movie, they were both just kind of
01:40like, oh, thank God no one died.
01:42You're still an actor when you're waiting tables.
01:44You're still an actor when you're serving coffee, and that part of your journey is not worth any less than
01:50the future you might have imagined.
01:51Giving yourself grace and being like, oh, I chose to pursue something that I love, and that's a dream come
01:58true in and of itself.
01:59Giving yourself grace and being like, oh, I chose to pursue something that I love, and that's a dream come
01:59true in and of itself.
