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| Zoe Saldana: I Can’t Stand Sunshine | July 12th, 2010 |
Zoe Saldana hates sunshine and would rather sit in a dark room than go to the beach.
The Hollywood star detests sunny days and always shuts the curtains when she is in a hotel, even if she has a good view. Zoe claims she feels more comfortable without natural light because it suits her “melancholy” mood.
“I’m not a sunny person. I’m not one of those people who have the windows open all the time,” she explained in an interview for the August edition of GQ magazine. “Literally the first thing I do when I get to any hotel room – even if I’m in Paris and there’s a view of the Champs-Élysées outside – is draw the curtains. I like that Blade Runner feel. That melancholia.”
The 32-year-old spent some of her teenage years living in the Dominican Republic, after her mother moved the family there when her father was killed in a traffic accident. Even though Zoe was spoilt with a warm climate and beautiful beaches, she rarely donned a bikini to sunbathe or swim. Instead, she preferred to read in the shade.
“When I lived in the Caribbean as a teenager, I would always be dressed in black, with the Jackie O glasses, reading a book under the biggest umbrella I could find, with a glass of red wine by my side – even on the hottest day of summer,” she laughed. “People were like, ‘Come out, Zoe, the sun’s wonderful,’ and I’d be like, ‘Nope don’t like it.’”
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| Saldana: My fiance isn’t my type | July 12th, 2010 |
Zoe Saldana has confessed her fiance isn’t really the type of guy she is naturally attracted to.
The 32-year-old Avatar star has been dating 34-year-old entrepreneur Keith Britton for ten years, since they met at acting class while living in New York, and they recently announced their engagement.
Zoe told GQ magazine: “He was a model, and now he’s a finance guy. It’s funny, I never had a thing for these Abercrombie and Fitch boys – never.
“They were just too, y’know… big necks and everything. But then here’s this all-American guy: hunter, beer drinker, all that bulls**t. And in ten years we haven’t been able to get rid of each other.”
The Star Trek actress grew up in Queens until she was 10, before her family moved to the Dominican Republic.
She revealed: “I brought home a lot of frogs. It was only because, oh, I like the way he played the guitar, or oh, I really liked the way he walked. This one boy, he just had a swagger. It was so sexy.
“I love men’s hands, I feel as though hands tell a lot about you and your history, and there’s something very abrasively fragile about a man’s hands.
“Then there were those times when it was like, ‘Don’t open your mouth, don’t explain, just come here and f*****g…’
“The only thing I can’t tolerate in a human being, especially in a man, is ignorance. Somebody who talks in labels or talks just to hear themselves speak. To me, judgement day is when you open your mouth and say something that lets me know what kind of personality you have.”
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| Saldana wants any Tarantino role | July 10th, 2010 |
Zoe Saldana has claimed she will play anything to be in a Quentin Tarantino movie – even a rock.
The 32-year-old Avatar star is a huge fan of the director and would love to work with him, no matter what the part required.
Zoe told GQ magazine: “I’ll be a rock; I’ll be the p***y wagon; I really don’t give a s**t.”
The Star Trek actress can’t believe her luck at seeing her career take off in the last year.
She revealed: “Y’know what it feels like right now? Like someone put me in a box and just shook it. I mean, just last night I was having dinner at an old friend’s and Quentin Tarantino was there: he said ‘Hello’ and I was like ‘Holy s**t! That kinda thing doesn’t happen every day!’ Then he said to me ‘I saw Losers this weekend, just to see that ass shot of you in the trailer.’ I’m like ‘Wow, I mean, you’re Quentin Tarantino!’ It’s just really cool for a geek from Queens.”
| Zoe Saldana finds men with smooth palms attractive | July 6th, 2010 |
Actress Zoe Saldana says the most important thing she looks for in a man are a nice pair of hands and a sensitive soul.
‘I love men’s hands, not just nice, manicured hands. I feel as though hands say a lot about you and your history. There’s something very abrasively fragile about a man’s hands,’ femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying.
The ‘Avatar’ star also finds sensitive men very attractive, adding: ‘I mean I’m not saying I love a man who cries, but I think that can be very sexy’.
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| Zoe Saldana Happy To Be A Role Model | June 28th, 2010 |
Zoe Saldana finds it a “privilege” to be a role model for women.
The ‘Avatar’ actress feels lucky that females look up to her and she wants to show them women can do whatever they want without having to conform to society’s expectations.
She said: “I guess I’m a role model now, and that is a privilege. I think women were fighting because we wanted to be feminine. Then we had to be masculine. Now we just want to be us.”
While she is now a role model for other women, Zoe says she used to look up to her grandmother when she was younger, especially when it came to fashion.
She told Style magazine: “I love fashion. My grandmother and great-grandmother were seamstresses, so I know fashion on an artistic level, not as labels, labels, labels.
“My grandmother, if she wore here, would touch your dress, look at the seam. She was obsessed with buttons. She’d take off my shoes and say, ‘This is good leather, a good investment.’ ”
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