Zoe Saldana Loves Having ‘Street Cred’ With her Kids Because She’s Gamora

Zoe Saldaña makes nary bones astir it. Her and hubby Marco Perego’s three kids – Zen, 5, and 8-year-old twins Bowie and Cy – are “going to turn up to beryllium truly beauteous nerds.” That’s according to Zoe, 44, erstwhile speaking to InStyle. The “nerd” portion of that equation comes from Zoe’s placement successful the popular civilization pantheon, acknowledgment to her parts successful the Star Trek, Avatar, and Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. “I spot however he’s trying to spot maine successful his caput like, ‘OK, you’re mama, but you’re besides Gamora,'” she said of her youngest. “They’re going to ticker these movies, and it’s going to beryllium a portion of what they similar and what excites them. And the information that that gives maine thoroughfare cred with my kids, it’s fun, it’s great.”

As for the “pretty” part, Zoe told InStyle that she and Marco person made immoderate good-looking kids. “I cognize that each genitor finds their children super-handsome. Maybe that’s what’s to blame. But I look astatine my kids, and I’m like, ‘My god, you guys are truthful f-cking handsome,'” she says.

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Zoe besides spoke astir however her children instrumentality aft her. “I’ve ever felt precise insecure astir radical that are conscionable excessively chill and that person themselves truthful enactment unneurotic and cognize precisely what to accidental and cognize everything. I’ve ever felt precise unstable astir radical similar that,” she told InStyle. “I similar to beryllium astir radical that are people funny and honorable astir the curiosity. And erstwhile they don’t cognize something, I similar erstwhile they say, ‘I don’t cognize what you’re talking about.’ My kids are similar that; they consciousness truthful present.”

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Gamora mightiness person a caller challenger successful the Saldaña household. Avatar: The Way of Water brings Zoe’s Neytiri backmost to the large screen, on with Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver. Kate Winslet and Michelle Yeoh join the formed for this sequel. “Kate Winslet is simply a queen,” she said of her caller co-star. “I can’t adjacent archer you. She’s conscionable truthful marvelous. The infinitesimal you conscionable her, she conscionable gets down and soiled with you, goes and does the enactment and beats herself up, and works harder than everybody other and demands 120% of herself.”

“I’ve met truthful galore of my idols, particularly women, and I person to accidental that I’ve ne'er truly walked distant disappointed,” she says. “If anything, I locomotion distant from moving with idiosyncratic similar Kate Winslet repurposed, re-inspired. I consciousness raised a small more. I’m excessively hard connected myself, conscionable similar each creator and each different idiosyncratic successful this world. I bash endure from imposter syndrome a large deal, truthful if I’ve earned her respect from the acquisition that we had moving together, that’s checked disconnected my bucket list.”