Zoe Saldaña: Spielberg 'restored my faith' in big movies after 'Pirates of the Caribbean'

The Credits And Debts Of “Pirates” Life Was Not To Zoe Saldaña.

During a conversation on Saturday at the BFI London Film Festival, the "Avatar" star, 46, reflected on having a negative experience starring in "Pirates of the Caribbean: This gift was introduced in the movie called ‘The Curse of the Black Pearl.” Saldaña appeared as Anamaria pirate in the first movie was released in 2003, however, later sequels she did not join.

Speaking to Variety, she said: “I knew with that experience the kind of people that I wanted to work with.”

There has also been issues of misconduct from the crew and the cast, she said, ‘The crew and the cast, they are 99% for the time super marvelous,’ she said, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. But if the studio and the producers and the director, they’re not leading with kindness and awareness and consideration, then that big of a production can become a really bad experience and you may tip overboard. And I kind of did."

“Pirates” was actually one of the films of Saldaña when she began her foray in the movie industry. Then, she acted in the “The Terminal” where she portrayed an officer with Customs and Border Protection. She also thanked the film’s director, Steven Spielberg for making her understand that working on big movies cannot be always horrible.

”And eight months after that, I worked with Steven Spielberg, and he showed me that big can also be great,” Saldaña said, according to the outlets.

The “Star Trek” actress has earlier disclosed her bitter experience with “Pirates”, claiming that it was “a bit large for her, and the speed of making was beyond her tolerance”.

This she stated when she spoke with the outlet; “I walked away not really having a good experience from it overall”. ‘I really sensed I was in the trenches of it a lot and it just didn’t sit well with me that I wasn’t okay.’

In an interview with BBC Radio 1 last year however, Saldaña attributed this bad experience to “poor management.” However, she has confessed that the director of the franchise, Jerry Bruckheimer has since then come forward to apologize. Years later, she was able to sit down with Jerry Bruckheimer and have him tell her that he’s sorry that she had that experience because he wants everyone to have a good experience on his set, she said to Entertainment Weekly in 2022. "That really moved me."

However, Saldaña said in an interview with BuzzFeed UK before the movie was made that she is fine with the movie.

”It was too big of a machine for me, and it was too out of control”, said she. As for what I see that transpired on screen I am very proud of. How inaccessible the place was, I do not wish to visit the place again.

Since then Saldaña has been a leading actress of some of the highest-grossing films of all time, with starring roles as Uhura in the “Star Trek” series, Gamora in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and two of the “Avenger” movies and Neytiri in James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels.