{"id":26894,"date":"2013-05-31T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=26894"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:32:28","slug":"saldana-wants-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/05\/saldana-wants-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Saldana Wants to Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26897\" title=\"Saldana040413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saldana0404132.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zo\u00eb Saldana<\/strong> has a new goal; wanting to move into directing movies instead of acting in them.<\/p>\n<p>She has several reasons for wanting to do so, including more participation and more control over a project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Part of Saldana&#8217;s dissatisfaction with acting stems from what happens to the story after an actor&#8217;s work in it is done. &#8220;I have been working in this business for over ten years,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and, especially as a woman, you are disappointed because by the time you get to see your work it has changed so much. I don&#8217;t like to be disappointed. I like having control. I think I have capability and as a woman I can&#8217;t be at too many people&#8217;s mercy. It is not OK for me. I am a storyteller and an artist and I love what I do so I want to be a part of it more and not just show up and say my lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a director, said Saldana, &#8220;You are more of a participant in the conception and making of a story, of a movie, as opposed to being an actor that&#8217;s hired and shows up and says your lines. Obviously you collaborate with your director and your producer but as soon as you leave you are at everybody&#8217;s mercy and that is too much of a loss of control for me, of my craft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saldana&#8217;s latest acting role was in <em>Blood Ties<\/em>, which just premiered at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zo\u00eb Saldana has a new goal; wanting to move into directing movies instead of acting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2410],"class_list":["post-26894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-saldana"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26900,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions\/26900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}