Complex sentence: She played Manjula Sasidharan, a rural village school girl and said that the character was exactly the opposite of what she was in real life and that she had to sunbathe to get dark for the role.
Split into simpler sentences: She played Manjula Sasidharan, a rural village school girl. She said that the character was exactly the opposite of what she was in real life and that she had to sunbathe to get dark for the role.