DECEMBER 20, 2022 - In 2009, Zoe Saldaña took on one iconic role, as well as a new role, which has subsequently become iconic.  These of course, were Lieutenant Uhura in J.J. Abrams’ remake of Star Trek and Naytiri, the Na’Vi alien in James Cameron’s Avatar. 

Danish movie journalist Johan Albrechtsen interviewed Saldaña for Avatar: The Way of Water which has just been released. To set the stage, he showed up wearing a Mr. Spock T-shirt, so his geekiness was on full display.  He couldn’t help but ask an obvious Trek question, but (no doubt to her relief) he didn’t ask when Trek 4 would be going into production.  Rather he asked about which language, Klingon or Na’Vi, was harder to learn.

She quickly said that Klingon was the harder language to learn.  She had less time to learn the phrases and had to be exactly precise in them.  Whereas in learning the Na’Vi language, she had more time to learn it and was able to roll it more easily and more forgivingly when she spoke it. 

See the clip from his Moovy TV interview here.  

And, let’s not forget the OTHER franchise that she’s a part of, Zoe Saldaña will be returning to the Marvel Universe as Gamora in May 2023 for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3.