{"id":45707,"date":"2017-04-12T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45707"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:06:37","slug":"saldana-sci-fi-good-for-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/04\/saldana-sci-fi-good-for-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Saldana: Sci-Fi Good For Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For <strong>Zoe Saldana<\/strong>, science fiction has given her a chance to stretch her acting wings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get to imagine the unimaginable,&#8221; she said regarding working in the genre. &#8220;I&#8217;m always in awe of writers, directors and actors who are able to pull off a world we\u2019ve never seen \u2013 I love working with people who let their imaginations go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plus, you get to play characters who defy gravity. I like that. It makes me feel superhuman because, obviously, it&#8217;s been brought to my attention continuously since I was born that I&#8217;m not a conventional person because of the color of my skin or my gender or my cultural background. So I think science fiction has given me the ability as an artist to be colorblind, and gender-blind, and to imagine and reinvent myself and be the chameleon actors are supposed to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t always been the case. When taking on the role of <strong>Nina Simone<\/strong> in <em>Nina<\/em>, Saldana took heat again for her color, this time being told she was not black enough to portray the singer. &#8220;You have no idea who I am,&#8221; she told critics at the time. &#8220;I am black. I&#8217;m raising black men. Don&#8217;t you ever think you can look at me and address me with such disdain.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Zoe Saldana, science fiction has given her a chance to stretch her acting wings&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2410],"class_list":["post-45707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-saldana"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SaldanaRoles041217.jpg",580,225,false]},"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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707","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=45707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45709,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions\/45709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}