Elle cover
Saldana is featured on the November cover of Elle as one of this year’s Elle Women in Hollywood honorees. Saldana discusses playing singer Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic.
I actually encouraged Cynthia to cast someone else. But she came to me and said that everybody was afraid, and I thought, ‘Shit, then how can we complain that there aren’t enough films about African-American iconic figures?’