Popular Indian actress Deepika Padukone has been making waves in the international circuit by being one of the important people at several coveted events. To jog your memory, she was one of the jury members at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. She then became the first Indian to become a Louis Vuitton House ambassador.
She was also the first Indian to unveil the FIFA World Cup trophy during the finals in Qatar last year.
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Just now, she added another feather to her cap by being one of the presenters in this year’s Oscars a.k.a the 95th Academy Awards.
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But despite so many accomplishments and being on top of her game, some media houses confused her for Brazilian model and Matthew McConaughey’s wife, Camila Alves.
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Getty Images tagged Deepika’s pictures from the Oscars this year as Camila Alves.
Not just that, a magazine as popular as Vogue, in their online edition, shared Deepika Padukone’s picture and identified her as Camila Alves.
Buzzfeed, in their online article, also made the same mistake but was quick to correct it after people called them out online.
Hey @BuzzFeed, this is Deepika Padukone (@deepikapadukone), the highest paid actress in Bollywood.
Your ignorance and racial blindness is showing. Please fix.https://t.co/qkjvtNmtGO pic.twitter.com/wT3Jf5FgS2
— Fatima Syed (@fatimabsyed) March 13, 2023
Obviously, these errors weren’t hidden by people online who slammed these publications for their careless blunders.
Hey @voguemagazine this is @deepikapadukone , NOT Camila Alves – please edit 🙄 pic.twitter.com/eQjzCQ2vOb
— Rumika (@Rumika1111) March 12, 2023
um, getty images this is deepika padukone. you appear to have confused her with camila alves.
deepika's actually quite famous in her own right – 72 million insta followers and an award-winning career.#Oscar #Oscar2023 pic.twitter.com/0kQPjOce51
— Tarang / तरंग (@tarang_chawla) March 13, 2023
hi, @GettyImages. this is Deepika Padukone and not Camila Alves! #Oscars
big sigh. pic.twitter.com/HDBmrPcRAK
— saloni gajjar (@saloni_g) March 12, 2023
.@GettyImages @voguemagazine This is Deepika Padukone not Camila Alves. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/bGl5wtnySg
— chachi. (@sincerelyCL) March 12, 2023
She is bigger than 90 percent attendees at Oscars! This is racism at it’s best
— Saurabh Singh (@Saurabh70144161) March 13, 2023
Why so cheap @BuzzFeed ??? Every brown girl isn’t the same girl… They have their identity.. she is Deepika padukone, the brand ambassador of Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Qatar , Adidas and Levi’s . She even named as one of the Times most influential people
— malang (@malang83316248) March 13, 2023
People on Reddit also discussed this mistake.
This is unreal especially because Deepika was one of the presenters at the Oscars. 🤦