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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00:00I'm Zoe Saldana, and I'm a woman in Hollywood.
00:04The first time I saw myself in a character
00:06was an episode of Law & Order.
00:09That was the very first time I did something
00:11that my entire family, you know,
00:14living in the States and worldwide was able to watch.
00:16Remember the day that I shot that scene,
00:18I had so much fun on set,
00:21and I thought, I can get used to this.
00:23Like, this is something that I'm,
00:25I can maybe do, like, as a career.
00:27The most difficult lesson I've learned in my career,
00:31not to take anything for granted.
00:34You know, when you're young,
00:35and you start getting all these opportunities,
00:39you can very easily enter a pattern
00:41of working hard and playing hard,
00:44and that's okay if you're able to still wake up
00:47the very next day, get to work on time,
00:49look super sharp, and deliver your work.
00:52The advice I give my younger self when I was starting out,
00:56it's not so much an advice, but more like a message.
01:01It gets better.
01:02It always gets better.
01:03My younger self would have been like, what?
01:06Pfft, total f***ing cynic.
01:09That's what you have to give me?
01:12Out of all the things you've achieved and done,
01:14you're gonna leave me with this?
01:16It gets better?
01:17And yeah, yeah.
01:19That's what I would leave my younger self with.
01:22I'm championing other women in this industry
01:25by living my most authentic self
01:27and making decisions that come completely from the heart
01:29and with an open mind,
01:31so that that can be an example for the future generations.
01:35The Hollywood moment that still amazes me
01:38is going to the Oscars for the first time.
01:40It was incredible.
01:41And I went to the Oscars because I was a part of a film
01:46that was a major contender,
01:49and that was, I felt like I belonged there,
01:53and that felt great.
01:55Pfft.