Going from blockbuster movie star to #momlife in the same day doesn't faze Zoe Saldana. The busy actress shares what inspires and strengthens her – and we are Here. For. It.
That’s what Zoe Saldana wants to know as she surveys a cannon-like contraption designed to shoot her from atop a platform all the way down to the bottom of a nine-metre water container on the set of the sequel to the 2009 sci-fi phenomenon Avatar. She’s been well prepped by her stunt coordinator (“I trust him with my life”) and James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director, has no intention of calling for a stand-in. “Nope,” he says. “You are going to do this.” “I was like, ‘Okay, suuure’,” Zoe recalls a week later with nervous laughter. But the tough-talking actress
from Queens, New York, didn’t become the female face of this and two other testosterone-fuelled franchises (Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek) by shying away from such challenges. So she summoned the courage to allow herself to be launched into that “big-ass tank” – and ended up enjoying it. “The moment he says, ‘Action!’ you forget you’re from this planet and you really believe you have superpowers,” she says. “I was bummed when he told me, ‘I got it, that’s it.’”
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