Star Trek actress Zoe Saldana covers the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Latina and opens up about family life with husband Marco Perego-Saldana and their 11-month-old twin sons Cy and Bowie.
On if she’s raising her sons with her Latino background: “Oh my God, it’s just who I am every day. So they’re going to get a part of who I am naturally. English isn’t even Marco’s second language. It’s his fourth. We only speak English when we have people around us that we have to speak English. But if it’s just Marco and the boys, it’s a combination of Italian and Spanish at all times. I speak a very Dominican Italian.”
On her family life: “I wake up with a big, fat smile on my face.”
On balancing career and family: “You come home, you spend time with your family, you stay a little extra after the dinner has been eaten. It’s very important, because by the time you go back to work, it doesn’t feel like work. There’s a separation between being physically tired and being fatigued overall. I don’t like being fatigued.”
On what she has to say to those who are scared by the Latinization of America: “You can’t kill us. You can’t send us back. We are millions and millions here because it is our time to migrate. We are the youngest culture. We are doing what your people did. So shut up and just deal with it. Adjust your laws, because it’s not going away. If anything, I want to give them a hug, and say, “It’s okay. It’s new. Don’t be scared. We’re great people. We’re gonna do great and better things for your country. Trust me.” We’re not angry either. We’re a culture that isn’t angry.”
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