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Deepika Padukone to star in 'xXx4', confirms DJ Caruso

Deepika Padukone has bagged her second Hollywood project. Director DJ Caruso has confirmed that the actress will return in the next installment of the xXx franchise, alongside Hollywood action star Vin Diesel.

The latest movie, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, which marked the 31-year-old Indian actress' Hollywood debut, also starred Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Samuel L Jackson and Tony Jaa, among others.


Recalling the shooting days, Rose took to Instagram and hinted at starting the next xXx film soon.

"And while I'm here I can't forget my training for Adele in xXx... but... more new exciting news on that soon ;)," wrote the actress, alongside a picture from the sets of the film.

A fan took a screenshot of the post and wrote to Caruso on Twitter asking if the new film is in works.

The director replied in a series of tweets confirming the news.

"Yes meetings next week. Honing in on story and start dates," he wrote back.

When another fan asked, "@Deejaycar Serena Unger Aka Deepika is there in #xXx4?", Caruso replied, "Oh Yes!... All coming back."

xXx 3 released in India on January 13.

In Bollywood, Deepika is currently busy filming Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmavati. The actress has also signed an upcoming Vishal Bhardwaj production.

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  • Government to criminalise porn that shows strangulation or suffocation during sex.
  • Part of wider plan to fight violence against women and online harm.
  • Tech firms will be forced to block such content or face heavy Ofcom fines.
  • Experts say the ban responds to medical evidence and years of campaigning.

You see it everywhere now. In mainstream pornography, a man’s hands around a woman’s neck. It has become so common that for many, especially the young, it just seems like part of sex, a normal step. The UK government has decided it should not be, and soon, it will be a crime.

The plan is to make possessing or distributing pornographic material that shows sexual strangulation, often called ‘choking’, illegal. This is a specific amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. Ministers are acting on the back of a stark, independent review. That report found this kind of violence is not just available online, but it is rampant. It has quietly, steadily, become normalised.

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