Zoe Saldana is known for two things - starring in scifi blockbusters and her chronic verbal diarrhoea which she refuses to address and seek treatment for. In this post we countdown the most wtf, juiciest, most braindead comments of Zoe's career and ask ourselves..."Zoe Saldana said what?!"
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10.
On being Colourblind...."
I think science fiction has given me the ability as an artist to be colourblind, and gender-blind, and to imagine and reinvent myself and be the chameleon actors are supposed to be." -
Zoe speaking in an interview with Daily Telegraph, Australia - 2017- I guess her colour-blindness is why she doesn't realise she is the only WOC in these films.
9.
Zoe has been having issues with colours long before that 2017 interview. In 2013, she infamously said...." To me there is no such thing as people of color cause in reality people aren’t white. Paper is white. People are pink, it’s a bit ridiculous when I have to explain to a human being, that is an adult like I am, that looks intelligent but for some reason I have to question his intelligence and explain to him as if he was a two-year-old, my composition in order for him to say, “Oh I guess I can chill with you, I can work with you.” -
BET, 2013 via the frisky - video no longer online.- Zoe, if you have to break down your race/ethnicity in order for someone to chill/work with you - they are not your friends!
8 .
An organization of Colombian students and professionals had come out against her film " Colombian" for (amongst other things) its lack of creativity and cultural awareness. Wall Street Journal asked Zoe about it and here's what she said...“shame on them...I wish I knew how to address stupid unintelligent comments but I don’t… it’s just a shame that there are so many people out there that think so ignorantly.” -
WSJ - via colombiareport, 2011For number seven, it's our first tie of the list7.
That time she declared that no one knew who Nina Simone was before her messy film caused her to trend."The fact that we're talking about her, that Nina Simone is trending? We [f—king] won," Saldana stated. "For so many years, nobody knew who the [f—k] she was. She is essential to our American history. As a woman first, and only then as everything else." -
Allure, june 2016Also at number 7 - I almost left this out because it just might be so deep that I don't understand it, but I'm adding it in case someone smarter can shed some light. Timecode: 02:107.
“I cannot wait until the word ‘ethnic’ is erased from our everyday vocabulary,...“In America, everything that’s not ‘American’ is ethnic but outside of America everything that is American is ethnic. So in reality there’s no such thing as being darker or lighter, when in reality you’ve just been this way your whole life. Unless you’re comparing me to something, then I’m always going to be taller, smaller, skinnier, bigger or lighter or darker.” -
Queen Latifah show - 20146.
At six is the comment that inspired this post..."Of course, there’s racism everywhere.... “I’m not saying that there isn’t. But I think that sexism is much stronger and it’s much more aggressive. And turn on the TV, just read the newspaper all the CEOS are primarily male.” - Sway in the Morning - 4th May 2017time code: 19:47
- I wonder what race those male CEOs are? hmmm. It is not surprising she has this stance in light of her comments about race and ethnicity. In this same interview, she talks about how her and her sisters don't use about "white" or "black" to describe people. There's so much nonsense in this interview starting from 12:40.
5.
On the rise of Trump“We got cocky and became arrogant and we also became bullies...We were trying to single out a man for all these things he was doing wrong,” she continued, “and that created empathy in a big group of people in America that felt bad for him and that are believing in his promises.” -
AFP Via Daily Beast, Jan 2017- Yup, it was our "bullying" that created Trump's supporters. Not their rampant racism.
4 .
Months later she learns that America is racist.“There was a realization that I just had in this last election is that, that America is racist" -
Sway in the Morning - 4th May 2017- no shit, lady, no f**king shit! I'm cheating a bit by using two quotes from the same interview, but she is a gift that keeps on giving.
time code: 19:303.
Zoe was quizzed about taking on the role of Nina Simone and the reaction she was getting from the public.“
What keeps me focused is, and what kept me from, I guess, getting stressed or being hurt by the comments, is that I’m doing it for my sisters, I’m doing it for my brothers.... I know who I am and I know what Nina Simone means to me,” Saldana said. “I can only rely on that and maintain as much humility as possible, so that when I have to face the world and we have to then give the movie to the world to see, and share it with them, that if it comes back in … a negative fashion or positive, I’m gonna keep my chin up. … And Nina was like that too.I did it all out of love for my people and my pride of being a black woman and a Latina woman and an American woman, and that’s my truth,”
Hip Hollywood 2013- we can only assume she means her real life sisters.
And for number one it had to be a tie....1. “
We have a Black president right now. So why the f— would I sit down and talk about how hard it is for Black women in Hollywood when there’s a Black president in my country?" -
ebony magazine 2011.1. Zoe Saldana an Afro-latina woman, co-signs with a some lady saying she (Zoe) is a victim of reverse racism. Proving that Zoe doesn't understand race even at the most basic level.
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- @Zoesaldana twitter, 2012
sources
Q1 -
got Celeb,
Q2 (
ibtimes) and (
youtube)
Q5. (
dailybeast)
Q4 and Q6 (
swayinthemorning, youtube)
Q7 (
allure)(
youtube, queen latifah)
Q8 -
colombiareportsQ9 - (
thefirsky)
Q10 - (
dailytelegraph)
What do you think ONTD? Are there some quotes you feel deserve a mention, but were not included? let us know in the comments. Interesting how she usually comes for POC rarely ever white people/men?
