Actress Freida Pinto says she "lived in fear" of not landing another film role after starring in the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire".

Pinto, 26, admits she was nervous about life after the success of "Slumdog Millionaire" that won eight Oscars in 2009, reports contactmusic. com.

"I had a lot of moments where I lived in fear that nothing was going to happen, " she said.

Freida will next star alongside James Franco in the action-adventure movie "Rise of the Apes". The film is set in present-day San Francisco and follows the story of a man's own experiments with genetic engineering.