Marvel star on upsetting experience filming Pirates of the Caribbean
Zoe Saldaña has looked back on her Pirates of the Caribbean days, recalling the "difficult" experience of being part of such a huge franchise.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star played pirate Anamaria in the first instalment of the maritime saga, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Her character joined Orlando Bloom's Will Turner in an attempt to confront Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) for stealing her ship.
"What a great movie, it really was fun and entertaining and very well shot, very well performed," Saldaña told BuzzFeed UK.
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"It was all around such a diverse cast as well, all ages, all walks of life. But a hard production, it was just so big. It was too big of a machine for me, and it was too out of control," the Avatar star added.
"So when I see what transpired on screen, I'm very proud of [it]. Though how difficult it was to get there, I don't ever want to go back."
Saldaña, who's now starring in TV series Special Ops: Lioness alongside Nicole Kidman, also touched upon not being asked back for any of the other Pirates instalments, saying she's "happy" not to have returned.
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"I was only asked to be part of one and then, you know, and then that was it. Maybe they chose to go in a different direction. If [having her character return] was certainly the goal in the beginning, it didn't transpire by the end of the production and I'm happy it didn't," she said.
"There was just a lot of politics that you would have had to navigate, and I just felt really lost and very small in that big machine. But I'm happy for all the actors that benefited from this, because they certainly did and they went off to have amazing careers. And I followed their careers and felt really inspired, but for me, it was definitely an experience not worth repeating."
Special Ops: Lioness is streaming on Paramount+.
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