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Priyanka Chopra Shows Off Her Queens Accent to Stephen Colbert

By Julia Bottles | February 7, 2017 1:44pm | Updated on February 8, 2017 2:53pm
 The movie and TV star, who spent her high school years in Flushing, tried out her Queens accent on
The movie and TV star, who spent her high school years in Flushing, tried out her Queens accent on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."
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Get the lady some caw-fee.

Actor Priyanka Chopra showed her NYC roots on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" last week by showing off a Queens accent — revealing that long before she was a superstar in India, she was a high school student in Flushing.

Colbert asked the "Quantico" star about her time in the U.S., including spending her high school years in Flushing. 

"After I came back from America to India, I had a really American accent... I would be like, 'Can I have some caw-fee?'" she said, calling it "embarrassing."

Chopra — who is a major star in India, where she's made 50 movies — also opened up about her dislike of the term "Bollywood" to describe the Indian movie industry, as well as her status as an immigrant working on a visa in the U.S., following President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel for people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Watch the full interview with Chopra below: