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Allure: ZSALD "There's no one way to be black. I'm black the way I know how to be. You have no idea who I am. I am black.
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I'm raising black men. Don't you ever think you can look at me and address me with such disdain."
"Reading all the postings for castings for the 20 years I've been an actress, there's so often that last line about 'the director wants to go traditional with this part,'" she says—meaning Caucasian. "But every now and then, I encounter filmmakers like James Cameron, J. J. Abrams, Ben Affleck, James Gunn, and they go, 'Why not you? You're "traditional." You're everything.'"
Still, she has no regrets. "The script probably would still be lying around, going from office to office, agency to agency, and nobody would have done it. Female stories aren't relevant enough, especially a black female story," she says. "I made a choice. Do I continue passing on the script and hope that the 'right' black person will do it, or do I say, 'You know what? Whatever consequences this may bring about, my casting is nothing in comparison to the fact that this story must be told.'"
"The fact that we're talking about her, that Nina Simone is trending? We ****ing won," Saldana continues. "For so many years, nobody knew who the **** she was. She is essential to our American history. As a woman first, and only then as everything else."