Q:You're playing a black ops soldier in the adaptation of the graphic novel The Losers, out in April. Do you enjoy roles that require you to run around and shoot a gun?
Zoe Saldana: Like you wouldn't believe. It turns me on in a way that I shouldn't be saying. It's not the guns that turn me on, though—it's seeing women in a commanding position. It's boring to always play the victim. [In sobbing victim's voice] "Rape me! I'll have your child!" Eff that! Why don't you have my baby and wait at home while I go kill some motherfuckers? [Laughs.] It's just very empowering. I just want to play roles that, in some way or another, resemble the kind of person that I am, the kind of things that I'm attracted to.
Q:You've said you like to gossip with your mom and sisters. Do you gossip about Hollywood?
Zoe: No, not Hollywood, because my mom is such a mom that whenever she hears a devastating story about a celebrity that's going downhill, she cries. She always says, "That's someone's child." She keeps me grounded. She's so non-judgmental; as long as you have a job, she don't give a shit what, who, or how you are.
Q:I read a quote from Women's Health where you said you "want to keep your ass together as long as possible without going against nature." So you're opposed to plastic surgery?
Zoe: Not at all! I mean, whatever you need to do!
Q:For you personally, though?
Zoe: Today I don't feel like I need it...unless you think I do.
Q:I can't imagine anything further from the truth.
Zoe: I'm just not going to do it for all the wrong reasons. I do feel that our business should be a little more flexible with women. The moment a woman has a baby it's like, "Oh, she's not sexy!" What, having a baby means you can't imagine sleeping with her? We have the same critical opinion about men, but we're sympathetic and discreet and we won't share it all the time. I mean, do you really think we like a man with a gut? A bald man? Are you kidding me?! But we accept you as who you are because that's the way that society has made us to be. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to shave my legs just because you don't feel like touching hairy legs. For that, you better shave your...
Q:[Laughs.] Have you ever felt pressure to get implants in Hollywood?
Zoe: Have I ever not, are you kidding me? I'm human, and I'm a girl. Even before you're in Hollywood, at 14 years old you want to have more because your sister has a better rack than you and you see how beautiful she is. But me getting it done because men are dictating the quality of my beauty? I can't do it. If I were to do it, I'd get it for me. But it's too late, everybody knows I'm flat-chested. [Laughs.]
Q:Do you have any desire to be less exposed, to get more involved behind the camera as a director or producer?
Zoe: God, yes. I like power; it turns me on. I don't like being told what to do by too many collars and ties. I'm too feisty that way. It's just, "We want her sexier, we want her tone to be softer." It's like, do you even know what it's like to be a woman? You guys are barely getting by writing roles for women.
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