Zoe Saldana On ‘Lioness’ & “Exploring Colonization” In New ‘Avatar’ – Deadline

This week’s visitor is Zoe Saldana.

Since her “grueling” early years combating to make it as a prima ballerina, Saldana says she has at all times pushed again towards “being outcast and remoted as a result of I used to be completely different.”

From her mother who imbued her with self-belief and refused to let her and her sisters have posters of males on their partitions, telling them, “Oh recover from it, they’re simply singers,” and that males “don’t stroll on water,” to the best way she is elevating her personal children to respect each their elders and themselves, Saldana digs into her previous, current and hopes for the longer term.

At present, she is engaged on Lioness, the upcoming spy thriller sequence from Yellowstone scribe Taylor Sheridan, based mostly on a real-life army program. Saldana is starring and govt producing alongside Nicole Kidman.

And are available mid-December, Avatar followers will lastly get their sequel repair with Avatar: The Manner of Water. Saldana says viewers can look ahead to a take a look at “the opposite 80 p.c” of the submerged world of Pandora in a movie that explores not solely colonization but in addition the abuse of the environment. As she places it, “Prepare man!”

Saldana additionally will get tremendous actual concerning the backlash round her casting within the 2016 biopic Nina, and the way she has processed that have.

To listen to the total interview, together with Saldana’s perception that left-handed persons are the “solely ones in our proper mind-set,” despite the fact that she jokes, that “could not even be f—ing actual,” take a look at this episode of 20 Questions on Deadline above, and hear and subscribe on Spotify and Apple podcasts.