How Zoe Saldana Keeps It Real With Her Kids About Showbiz

Not everyone in Zoe Saldaña's household is arsenic excited astir Avatar's instrumentality to the large surface arsenic she is.

Thirteen years aft the archetypal 2009 film, Zoe returns arsenic her quality Neytiri for the caller sequel Avatar: The Way of Water. But according to Zoe, starring successful 1 of the biggest movie franchises successful past doesn't marque her immoderate cooler to her kids Bowie, 8, Cy, 8, and Zen, 6—whom she shares with hubby Marco Perego Saldaña.

"My kids are excessively young to ticker this," she exclusively told E! News Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight connected the show's Dec. 13 episode. "They're precise unfastened astir it. We showed them the trailer and they were conscionable like, 'Yeah, we're not ready.'"

Despite their disinterest successful the film—which premieres Dec. 16—the 44-year-old joked, "But they inactive wanted to travel to the premiere. And I was like, 'Babes, if you guys volition travel to the premiere of the movie than you are good and acceptable to watch.'"

And the formed and crew's hard enactment surely paid off, arsenic the movie precocious scored respective 2023 Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Drama, and Best Director, Motion Picture for James Cameron.

"I mean, I knew however overmuch enactment each this took for america to get here," Zoe said of the nominations. "To beryllium recognized by communities of each walks of life, it conscionable makes maine consciousness truly bully and proud."

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Avatar: The Way of Water premieres successful theaters Friday, Dec. 16.