Avatar star Saldana: I'll play any role
Avatar star Zoe Saldana says I'll play any role
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By Alistair Potter. |  |
Friday, 11, Dec 2009 12:03
By Lewis Bazley.
Avatar actress Zoe Saldana says she would jump at the chance to make use of new motion capture technology to play diverse roles.
Director James Cameron has said the animation and motion capture techniques used to change Saldana and her co-stars into aliens while retaining their human features can be used to "empower" actors and allow them to play different ages or even a member of the opposite sex.
Asked if she would ever play a man, the Star Trek actress enthusiastically replied: "F**k yes!"
She told inthenews.co.uk: "I'd play a man, I'd play a dog, I'll play a tree, anything! I'm an artist!"
The 31-year-old stars as Neytiri, a young alien female, in Cameron's new epic and said it feels "pretty fantastic" to see herself transformed into a nine-foot-tall, blue-skinned lifeform in Avatar.
"No matter how many times I could go to the gym, or tan with blue tint, I would never look that hot!" she joked at the film's world premiere in London on Thursday.
Saldana explained she had done six months' of martial arts, horseriding and weight training for the part, as well as rigorous work on learning the Na'vi species' language created for the film.
"It was tonnes of fun but exhausting," she added.
Avatar is released on December 17th.