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| | Zoe Saldana in vintage Fendi at the Oscars: undone or boho chic? | | Added 645 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Zoe Saldana stars in Avatar: The Way of Water, which my son saw in the theater. He wants me to see it because he loved it, but I feel like three hours is too much to ask of my time, you know? If your movie is under two hours Im much more likely to buy a ticket, otherwise its streaming for me. Zoe was in vintage Fendi and while she looks washed out in photos and this looks kind of wrinkly, I liked it on camera. I thought this was unique and pretty for a red carpet gown and I loved the detail on it.
Check out this up close photo, its beautiful, right? Her husband Marco Perego is also beautiful.
Zoes co-presenter and costar, Sigourney Weaver, was in Givenchy. Sigourney told Laverne Cox that the gown was furry and had her feel it! Sigourney has three Academy Award nominations (Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist, Working Girl) and no wins. That needs to change.
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| | Zoe Saldana apologizes for playing Nina Simone: 'I should have never played Nina' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2012, Zoe Saldana was cast as Nina Simone in a bio-pic which would end up being called, simply, Nina. The problems began right away Nina Simone?s estate did not approve of the movie nor did they approve of Zoe?s casting. Once the images came out of Zoe-as-Nina, there was an even bigger uproar. The problem was, as explained in depth at the time, that Zoe is a light-skinned Black-Latina woman with ?European? features, and for the film, they used makeup and a fake nose for her ?Nina Simone drag? and the whole thing was just as problematic as can be. The film was put on a shelf somewhere for four years, and then released in 2016 to widespread condemnation in the Black community (and the film community too, because it was apparently a terrible movie overall).
There were many layers to the problems around Zoe?s casting as Nina, and one of those layers was Zoe?s flat-out insistence that she was right for the role and there was nothing wrong with her applying darker makeup and wearing a prosthetic nose to play a Black icon. Zoe refused to simply sit down and listen to the larger conversations about race and colorism. Now, eight years after she filmed the damn movie, Zoe is finally admitting her mistake:
Zo Saldana is apologizing for playing the legendary jazz singer and civil rights advocate Nina Simone in her 2016 biopic Nina. The actress, 42, who is Afro-Latinx of Dominican, Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, spoke to Pose creator Steven Canals about portraying the singer in an interview on Bese on Tuesday.
I should have never played Nina, Saldana said. I should have done everything in my power with the leverage that I had 10 years ago, which was a different leverage, but it was leverage nonetheless. She continued, I should have done everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman.
I thought back then that I had the permission [to play her] because I was a Black woman, the Avengers actress said. And I am. But it was Nina Simone. And Nina had a life and she had a journey that should have been ? and should be ? honored to the most specific detail because she was a specifically detailed individual. She deserved better.
Crying, Saldana added, With that said: Im sorry. Im so sorry. I know better today, and Im never going to do that again.
Saldanas casting was met with controversy around the time of the films release for the darkening of her skin and for a prosthetic nose that was intended to aid the actress in looking more like Simone. The singer died in April 2003. The actress defended her portrayal of the singer in 2013 when she told Latina magazine, Let me tell you, if Elizabeth Taylor can be Cleopatra, I can be Nina ? Im sorry. It doesnt matter how much backlash I will get for it. I will honor and respect my Black community because thats who I am, she added.
[From People]
I believe that she?s sorry now and I?m glad she?s apologizing. But I do wonder why she was so insistent for years that what she was doing was A-OK. She wasn?t some ignorant kid back then either she would have been 33/34 years old when she was sitting in that makeup chair, being unevenly applied with black makeup all over her face, neck, arms and hands. At no point was she like ?hold up, is this RIGHT?? Of course, it wasn?t solely her mistake this whole thing was a mess and they never should have approached her to play this role. The movie never should have been made, honestly.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid (archived Fame/Flynet) and ?Nina?.
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| | Zoe Saldana: Every minute with three sons is just about stopping fights & arson | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I always sort of blank out on Zoe Saldana?s personal life, but she?s actually got an interesting home life. She married an Italian artist named Marco Perego in 2013. He adopted her surname and became Marco Perego Saldana, and their three children Bowie, Zen and Cy all carry the surname Perego-Saldana. It?s unusual but cool. Anyway, yes, she gave birth to the twins Cy and Bowie first, and they?re five years old. Zen just celebrated his third birthday in February. So, three boys under the age of five. Just put me out of my misery right now, I could not do that whatsoever. And now Zoe and Marco are isolating together with their sons and Zoe posted a video of Marco stopping a fight between the boys:
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| | Zoe Saldana's 'not thrilled' about turning 41: 'My knees hurt, my circulation isn't as sharp' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Just five years ago, I genuinely believed that if I took care of myself with diet and exercise, everything would be a breeze from an ageing standpoint. I?ve grown less vain as I get older, so I don?t care so much about laugh lines and wrinkles and such. I thought, well, I use a good night cream, I work out four times a week, and my diet is somewhat okay, so I?ve got this whole ?ageing? thing taken care of. But as I came closer to a big birthday last year, that sh-t started falling apart in ways I did not predict. I gained some weight in my midsection that won?t go away. I still use a good night cream but I can still see the lines around my eyes and they bug. But the worst thing is that my body is just? not the same. I can?t work out the same way or with the same intensity. My feet hurt (arthritis), my shoulders hurt (sitting at a desk/big boobs) and the worst thing is my knees suck now. My knees are a suckfest. Why didn?t anyone tell me that I would waste so much brainspace thinking about my knees at this point in my life? Well, Zoe Saldana and I are the same. She didn?t believe this sh-t could happen to her either, and her knees are a suckfest too.
Zoe Saldana is celebrating her birthday this summer, although the actress isn?t exactly looking forward to it. The 40-year-old Missing Link star turns 41 on June 19 and jokes to PEOPLE she?s ?not thrilled about that.?
?You know, my mother said once when I was growing up, she goes, ?I blinked and I was old,? says Saldana. ?I was like, ?Ew. It?s never gonna happen to me.?
The star, who is now a mother of three boys, admits she looks back at her mother?s comments with more understanding.
?I?m like, ?Oh, that?s what that blink meant. That?s what she meant she when she said, ?I blinked,? she says. And as for what she feels reflects her age? ?My knees hurt,? Saldana says laughing. ?When I squat to pick up my children and I?m there for longer than a minute,? she says. ?I don?t just like bounce off like, ?Hey!? If I bounced off I?d pull a charley horse.?
?My circulation isn?t as sharp. I drink one glass of wine and I hear voices,? she adds, laughing. ?It?s not OK.?
[From People]
She speaks the truth. I would say everything before 38, you?re like ?I?ve got this sh-t figured out.? And then sh-t starts falling apart and it doesn?t even really matter if you kept up with fitness and diet and all of that. Your body has other ideas. Your body just starts to break the fk down in big and small ways. The youths are always like ?omg, I was so stressed out about turning 25/30? and the conversations are so much about appearance and confidence, but we?re lacking the conversation of just how much it sucks when your body just starts to fall apart naturally because your ass is getting old. UGH.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Zoe Saldana: Britney Spears told the press I was pregnant before I was ready | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Zoe Saldana, reprising her role as Gamora for the just-released Guardians of the Galaxy 2, is on the promotional trail and found herself on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Thursday night. A caller to the show asked about a 2014 rumor Britney Spears, Zoe’s co-star in the 2002 movie Crossroads, was the first to tell the press that Zoe was pregnant with twins with husband Marco Perego.
The 38-year-old actress admitted that the rumor was true, telling host Andy Cohen, “We were on the same flight from L.A. to New York and we just talked for the duration of the flight….She has two boys, I was having twins ? and we had a beautiful talk. And I forgot ? it never even occurred to me to not to say anything. We weren?t trying to hide it, we were just trying to be discreet.?
When pressed by Andy if she had any ill will towards Britney, Zoe diplomatically said, ?The way that it happened was so innocent that I never even thought of holding her accountable for anything. She was just being Britney. I love her ? I don?t mean that in a negative way, I mean that in the way that she lives her life in such truth.? She did admit, ?I was shocked because we weren?t ready to sort of share that,” but quickly added, “But it was Britney, so it?s okay.”
After telling the press to respect her privacy back in 2014, I can only hope she’s telling the truth here. It’s easy to get excited when you get good news about a friend, and I am sure I’ve let something slip that I shouldn’t have at some point in my life. Good on you if you’re okay about it, Zoe.
Zoe and Marco have three boys. In addition to the twin boys, Bowie and Cy, the couple have another son, Zen, born in February. In a recent New York Times interview, Zoe was asked about having so many female role models (like Nina Simone, whom she played in a controversial 2016 movie) and now sharing her experience and knowledge with a trio of boys. She said, “Me having only boys is the universe being absolutely ironic, and I?m accepting the challenge with much love and humility. The biggest enigma is that after so many women, it?s now all about men ? seeing them at a very tender age, learning about their biology, understanding who they are and why they are such precious creatures.” Awww. Like her or not, that’s pretty cool.
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| | Zoe Saldana in Ulyana Sergeenko at UK 'Guardians' premiere: fug or fab' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Go ahead and yell at me, but I?ve never ?gotten? Zoe Saldana?s style. I understand that she enjoys bizarre, intricate, overworked gowns and dresses. I understand that she uses big statement ?looks? to stand out on a red carpet, and hey, it totally works. We usually end up talking about her specifically because of the fug, overworked dresses she wears and yes, that?s free publicity for her films. But I have to wonder? isn?t there an easier way? Like, with her figure, with her coloring, and her face, it shouldn?t be this f–king hard to find some styles that are actually flattering and beautiful rather than these ?stunt pieces.?
So, with that in mind, here are some photos of Zoe at the London premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. She wore this Ulyana Sergeenko dress to the premiere which? is better than the orange barf she wore at the LA premiere. But that?s setting the bar pretty low. I don?t get the tiered ruffles on the hips. I don?t the ?structure to nowhere? of the sleeves. I don?t get mixing chocolate brown silk with a black bustier. None of this makes any sense. Something nice: her hair and makeup look great.
I?m also including photos of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris, who wore a simple purple velvet slipdress which is one of the best things I?ve seen on her. This could have skewed way too ?90s, but I think she looks great (plus I?m a ?90s girl). I?m also including a shot of Karen Gillan, wearing a dress that would have been so much cuter without the asymmetrical mullet.
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| | Zoe Saldana & Marco Perego welcome their third child, a son named Zen | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Whenever I cover Zoe Saldana, I always have to remind myself that she?s still with Marco Perego. They always seemed like such an odd couple to me and I?ll admit it, I didn?t think they would last. They?re still truckin? along though. They got married in 2013 and they welcomed their twin boys Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio back in November 2015. Zoe?s pregnancy was apparently pretty difficult, and the birth was even harder. She?s spoken about it since then, how she really felt awful after giving birth and she struggled for months. I tended to think that those two boys would be her only children. But apparently they wanted a third, so they did? something. And now Zoe and Marco are parents again, to their third son, a boy named Zen. Zoe posted this Instagram:
Marco and I are elated to share the news of the the birth of our son Zen. We couldn?t feel more blessed with the new addition to our family. #threeboys… oh boy!"
A post shared by Zoe Saldana (@zoesaldana) on Feb 18, 2017 at 9:16am PST
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| | Zoe Saldana on why Trump won: 'We got cocky,' we became 'arrogant bullies' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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After Donald Trump got elected, many progressives and liberals turned inward, or they turned on each other, trying to put their finger on just who was at fault. I understand the desire to simply look for answers, to gauge your own level of responsibility. Just know that I don?t feel like it?s my fault at all ? I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary and the general, and I openly despised Trump throughout the election. I stand by everything I said, wrote and did. But other liberal/progressives felt differently. Jon Stewart was one of the first prominent progressive voices to basically say that liberals live in an echo chamber and that?s why we lost, that we were too busy scorning Trump and his supporters to realize that we were alienating a lot of ?real Americans? or whatever. Anthony Bourdain said something similar too, that coastal elites are smug and contemptuous and that?s why so many Midwesterners and Southerners voted for Trump. And now we can add Zoe Saldana to the mix ? she blames ?cocky and arrogant? liberals too. Ugh.
It isn’t an opinion heard frequently in the famously liberal Hollywood, but sci-fi queen Zoe Saldana has spoken out against the acting community for bullying abrasive Donald Trump. The “Star Trek,” “Avatar” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” star — who is not a supporter of the Republican president-elect — believes insults flung at him during the race for the White House turned off much of middle America.
“We got cocky and became arrogant and we also became bullies,” the 38-year-old actress said of Trump, who has been frequently berated himself for bullying tactics, including seemingly mocking a reporter with disabilities. “We were trying to single out a man for all these things he was doing wrong… and that created empathy in a big group of people in America that felt bad for him and that are believing in his promises.”
The Trump campaign that defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was criticized for stoking racial tensions with its rhetoric against Mexicans and Muslims, but Saldana is hopeful the country will never return to the dark days of segregation.
“I’m learning from (Trump’s victory) with a lot of humility,” the mother of two-year-old twin boys told AFP. “If we have people continue to be strong and educate ourselves and stand by equal rights and treat everyone with respect, we won’t go back to those times.”
[From Yahoo]
I feel like so many people are still grieving and that?s what this is about too, this inward blame-game. The What-Ifs of it all are part of the stages of grief. What If we weren?t so contemptuous of everything Trump said. What If we didn?t call out Trump supporters for their tacit or explicit support of racism, misogyny and hatred. What If we had done a better job of arguing why Trump should never become president. But here?s the thing? Trump earned our contempt and he?s still earning it every g?damn day. His supporters earned our contempt when they voted for him given everything he said, everything he promised. And I followed the election closely ? our side did a really good job of detailing every reason why Trump should not be president. If people chose to believe that was ?bullying? or ?arrogant,? then they?re the ones with the problem. Is it arrogant or bullying to say that a sexually assailant, a pervert, a racist and an idiot should not be president? Really?
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| | Zoe Saldana's Italian husband Marco Perego just became an American citizen | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Zoe Saldana at the San Diego/Comic-Con premiere of Star Trek Beyond. Saldana was absent for the European part of the film promotion, but she?s been in NYC and California this week, hustling for the movie, and obviously she will be at this year?s Comic Con to support the film. For the premiere, Zoe wore this blue Givenchy dress which? I don?t hate but I?m not crazy about it. Something nice: the color is lovely on her. Something not nice: the skirt looks like mold and the matchy shoes are bad.
Zoe walked the carpet with her Italian husband Marco Perego. Marco and Zoe got married in 2013, and they welcomed their twins in January 2015. Zoe also revealed in 2015 that Marco had taken her name when they married, as in he became Marco Perego Saldana, I think? That seems to be true. While Zoe wasn?t crazy about his choice to take her name, it might have been a way to help him when he applied for American citizenship. Any foreigner marrying an American citizen can apply for American citizenship, although I hear that it?s getting to be a more difficult and lengthy process these days. I don?t know when Marco applied ? I suspect it was probably in 2013, after their wedding ? but he just got his American citizenship this week. Zoe posted this on her Instagram (bonus David Oyelowo!). Also: the way Zoe talks about citizenship is so much better than Emily Blunt?s citizenship mess from last year.
On our way to be sworn in as a US Citizen. Marco has been dreaming about this moment for a long time. It was a process- as it should be, but we are finally here. We are aware it isn't as easy for many immigrants to obtain their citizenship, we say to them NEVER GIVE UP. Stay the course, America would not be what it is if not for the immigrants that come for better opportunities. We send love and good vibes to you all today. #newuscitizen
A photo posted by Zoe Saldana (@zoesaldana) on Jul 20, 2016 at 7:33am PDT
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| | Zoe Saldana Scores 7 For All Mankind's Fall 2016 Campaign | | Added 8 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Though she?s best-known for her work on the silver screen, Zoe Saldana also has an incredible penchant for posing.
The ?Avatar? starlet is the new face of 7 For All Mankind?s Fall 2016 advertisements, looking marvelous in the just-released images lensed by Nathaniel Goldberg.
Zoe told press, ?I?m a denim girl through and through, and 7 has always been an essential part of my wardrobe. What I love most about this new collection is that they fit like a glove. As soon as you slip into them, they blend into your body, and you can?t help but feel sexy.?
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