If there’s an actress in Hollywood that’s almost synonymous of guaranteed success, that’sZoe Saldana. Since very early in her career, she had gotten the chance to be part of some extremely popular franchises that have performed very well at the box office. In fact, she has become the first actress starring in four of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
In 2003, she played Ana Maria inPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,being this her first major saga. She didn’t return to the Disney hit, but in 2009 she joined another major franchise, playing Nyota Uhura inStar Trek.That same year, she was part of James Cameron’sAvatargiving life to Neytiri Omaticaya. In 2013, she came back to the Trekker world inInto Darkness, and a year after that she made her MCU debut as Gamora in the firstGuardians of the Galaxymovie, playing the character in other five other projects from the franchise. In 2016, she starred inStar Trek: Beyondand in 2022 she finally returned to the world of Pandora in the long-awaitedAvatar 2: The Way of Water.
With so many participations in big franchises, Saldana got the chance to work alongside some other major stars, becoming friends with many of them, or even family.In a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, the actress revealed which of her co-stars have made her laugh the most on set:
“Chris is really good at improvising, so it makes it really hard for you to stay in character, for sure. But I also remember, because of the threeStar Trekmovies that I’ve done, that being in the same room with Simon Pegg, John Cho or Anton Yelchin… sometimes Chris Pine, whenever he wanted to jump in. Zachary Quinto was hysterical. Because these are very educated individuals, and they’re masters of words, and they would whip out little jokes here and there. That was really hard, to stay in character and improvise with them, but I don’t improvise. I do in Spanish but not in English.”
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The Future of Zoe Saldana
Earlier this year, Saldana returned to theMCUplaying Gamora inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which is meant to be the last adventure of James Gunn’s group of misfits. However, even when the team may not appear again, at least with its original line-up, the character could still appear in the future, especially since Peter Quill is already confirmed to return at some point.
Beyond theMCU, the actress still has three otherAvatarfilms left to make, so her involvement with the saga will continue for a long time. She has recently starred in one of the most commented tv shows of the year,Special Ops: Lioness, created byYellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+.
She still has another project left to release,The Absence of Eden, the latest movie from her husband Marco Perego. The story follows a ICE agent conflicted by the moral implications of her job when she crosses paths with an undocumented woman trying to cross the border while running away from a dangerous cartel, and have to work together to save a young girl.
