Zoe Saldana Talks Nina Simone In Old-World Glam Shots For Latina Magazine December 2015/January 2015

Dominican/Puerto Rican beauty Zoe Saldana covers the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Latina Magazine. The star recently gave birth to twin boys, shares a wide-ranging interview on the Latinization of America. 

Zoe on the immigration debate: "This topic of immigration hurts because I don't want to be angry anymore. I don't believe that what anybody else is saying is true about me or my people. I'm kind of embarrassed when you see all of these people talking on national television, and it's like, 'Oh my God, if your grandfather were alive today, when he came here from Ireland, from Italy, escaped the f*cking war in Russia. You're rotting his name to shame. It doesn't matter how much money you have, or how many degrees from Ivy League schools. You're such a bigot. You're such a hick right now.' People have to be open to the reality of what's happening in our country."

On the upcoing release on her controversial biopic on Nina Simone, Zoe addresses the controversy that she -- as a lighter-skin Latina -- played Nina Simone. 

"Still to this day, I can't listen to her music. I'll be able to listen to her and not feel so heartbroken once I either finish this movie and release it, knowing that we did the best we could, or this movie goes away. I pray that somebody tells her story and they do it amazingly well."

Asked how she prepared to play the role of Nina Simone, Zoe also shares details of the singer's bipolar personality:  “I read as much as I could and spoke to as many people who knew her, who interviewed her. I listened to her voice, to her tone. She was angry, and rightfully so. She was a black woman born ahead of her time. Her soul, her spirit was never able to accept or adapt to the heartbreaks that life was giving her. Those are means for insanity. She was bipolar, and at that time, very little was known about bipolar disorder. A lot of people were self-medicating through substances, and she was doing it with alcohol. I wanted to understand all those things, and see what that was going to bring out of me. I never wanted to judge her.”