Zoe Saldaña On ‘Lioness’ Season 3, What To Expect From ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ & Her Hopes For ‘Star Trek 4’: “I Wish We Were Able To Do It Sooner”

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Zoe Saldaña has revealed she thinks Star Trek 4 needs to happen now, before everyone ages out of the story. In an interview with Deadline discussing her film Emilia Pérez, for which she recently received a Golden Globe nomination, Saldaña said of the as-yet untitled sequel to Star Trek Beyond: “I wish we were able to do it sooner rather than later.

I feel like a lot of us have a full head of gray hair, so we need to do this quickly, if this is the same cast that’s going to reprise it again.” Star Trek 4—as it’s currently known—has been a long time coming indeed, with Beyond having been released back in 2016.

But Saldaña is hopeful it will happen, and also hopeful that the story will further explore her character Uhura’s relationship with Spock. “It’s been a minute since I reconnected with Star Trek and all the characters’ journeys,” she said, “but Uhura and Spock were always sort of drawn to each other, it just makes sense to see what is the next step in their relationship and their work relationship as well.” Next up, Saldaña has the new installment of the Avatar franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, directed and co-written by james Cameron.

Saldaña will reprise her role of Neytiri, opposite Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a former marine who infiltrated her alien world and chose to remain there when they fell in love.