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Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>‘ Zo\u00eb Saldana<\/strong> prefers to be more than eye candy in her movie roles.<\/p>\n The actress, who once went blue for Avatar<\/em>, will be green for her role as Gamora in the forthcoming Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>.<\/p>\n The actress was originally attracted to the role as she is a fan of Director James Gunn<\/strong>‘s previous work. “James Gunn offered me the part; he said I was his only choice,” she said. “I read the script, I saw his work and I love Slither<\/em> \u2014 it’s such an ’80s film, such a cult-y movie, and I’m a kid of the’80s …and the ’90s; I’m not that old.”<\/p>\n Saldana wants to make sure though, that she is more than decoration on the set. “I was definitely open about Gamora needing more substance” she said. “When I did read the script, one of the first drafts, she was just eye candy.”<\/p>\n She worked with Gunn and Joss Whedon<\/strong> to make sure that there was more substance to Gamora. “I didn’t want [to be just eye candy],” she said. “It’s important for me to leave a trail of substantial things that young women can be inspired by. My niece is eleven years old, and I don’t want her to grow up just wanting to be a princess.<\/p>\n “I want her to grow to be a king.”<\/p>\n Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> opens August 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Star Trek into Darkness‘ Zo\u00eb Saldana prefers to be more than eye candy in her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[5525,2410],"class_list":["post-35216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","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'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216","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=35216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35222,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions\/35222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}