Avatar star Zoe Saldaña, the highest-grossing actor ever, wants to be asked about her “craft,” not “politics.”
The Oscar winner told an audience at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, according to Variety, “One thing that’s incredibly limiting, and frustrating, is when I’m the only person of color or the only woman on stage, and that happens quite a lot for women and for people of color—and I wait for my turn to be asked a question about my craft, and I’m asked the political question.”
Saldaña won Best Supporting Actress in 2025 for her role in the musical drama Emilia Pérez—the Netflix film whose awards run was rocked when a journalist uncovered offensive social media posts made by its titular star, Spanish-Mexican trans actress Karla Sofía Gascón.
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