Source: Crazy Days and Nights

A lot of revisionist history from the A/A- list mostly movie actress who has about a dozen installments of a franchise being filmed right now.

She was chastised back in the day for accepting a role and took it anyway and said she was entitled.

I guess the fact she had to darken her skin for the movie made her regret it?

Zoe Saldana

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‘She deserved better’: Zoe Saldana apologizes for playing Nina Simone, breaks down in tears

Zoe Saldana says Nina Simone “deserved better” than her controversial portrayal of the famed jazz singer in the 2016 biopic “Nina.”

During a virtual interview with “Pose” creator Steven Canals for the platform Bese, Saldana broke down in tears while opening up about her controversial role.

“I should have never played Nina,” Saldana, 42, said Monday. “I should have done everything in my power with the leverage that I had 10 years ago – which was a different leverage but it was leverage nonetheless – I should have tried everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman.”

Saldana, who identifies as Afro-Latina with a Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother, faced massive backlash for opting to play Simone over a dark-skinned, wide-nosed actress, an underrepresented group commonly marginalized in Hollywood.

For the role of Simone – an unapologetically Black musician who battled racial discrimination throughout her career – Saldana wore a prosthetic nose, false teeth and dark makeup, which raised more concerns of blackface and colorism.

Even Simone’s daughter, Simone Kelly, had an issue with Saldana’s casting. “My mother was raised at a time when she was told her nose was too wide, her skin was too dark. Appearance-wise this is not the best choice,” Kelly told the New York Times in 2012. – Source


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