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Zoe Saldaña on Being Her Most Authentic Self | Women in Hollywood | ELLE
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11/18/2024
Zoe Saldaña won’t take anything for granted. Our Women in Hollywood honoree discusses the first time she saw herself in a character, the most difficult lesson she’s learned in her career so far, and the Hollywood moment that still amazes her.
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I'm Zoe Saldana, and I'm a woman in Hollywood.
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The first time I saw myself in a character
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was an episode of Law & Order.
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That was the very first time I did something
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that my entire family, you know,
00:14
living in the States and worldwide was able to watch.
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Remember the day that I shot that scene,
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I had so much fun on set,
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and I thought, I can get used to this.
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Like, this is something that I'm,
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I can maybe do, like, as a career.
00:27
The most difficult lesson I've learned in my career,
00:31
not to take anything for granted.
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You know, when you're young,
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and you start getting all these opportunities,
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you can very easily enter a pattern
00:41
of working hard and playing hard,
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and that's okay if you're able to still wake up
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the very next day, get to work on time,
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look super sharp, and deliver your work.
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The advice I give my younger self when I was starting out,
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it's not so much an advice, but more like a message.
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It gets better.
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It always gets better.
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My younger self would have been like, what?
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Pfft, total f***ing cynic.
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That's what you have to give me?
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Out of all the things you've achieved and done,
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you're gonna leave me with this?
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It gets better?
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And yeah, yeah.
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That's what I would leave my younger self with.
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I'm championing other women in this industry
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by living my most authentic self
01:27
and making decisions that come completely from the heart
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and with an open mind,
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so that that can be an example for the future generations.
01:35
The Hollywood moment that still amazes me
01:38
is going to the Oscars for the first time.
01:40
It was incredible.
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And I went to the Oscars because I was a part of a film
01:46
that was a major contender,
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and that was, I felt like I belonged there,
01:53
and that felt great.
01:55
Pfft.
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