Updated 11:10 PM EDT, Tue, Apr 23, 2024

Zoe Saldaña’s Husband Marco Perego Takes ‘Nina’ Star’s Last Name Despite Objections

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Zoe Saldana has dished one major detail about her marriage with Marco Perego.

In her cover shoot for InStyle's July 2015 issue, the 36-year-old actress revealed that instead of using her husband's surname after their wedding, it happened the other way around.

"I tried to talk him out of it," Saldana said of Perego opting to use her surname when they got married, as quoted by Fox News Latino. "I told him, 'If you use my name, you're going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world.' But Marco looks up at me and says,' Ah, Zoe, I don't give a s-t.'"

Saldana and Perego, 36, married in London back in June 2013 after only three months of dating, Daily Mail reported. The couple welcomed their twin boys, Cy and Bowie, on November 2014.

Talking to InStyle about her support for equality, the Dominican-American actress believes that she is "entitled to everything and anything" the world has to offer, adding that she always thought that it is her birthright "to behave as an equal on this earth," Fox News Latino added.

"It's not like I've had issues with men; I've always just been independent to a fault," Saldana explained, as reported by the news outlet. "That said, I've had my experiences of heartbreak when it comes to choosing partners who wanted to be equals, but didn't have the ability to reciprocate the respect."

Now, Saldana learned to be more open when it comes to men.

"Finally when we had our boys I looked at my husband and I realized: I was meant for you and you were meant for me," the "Guardians of the Galaxy" star said, as quoted by Fox News Latino. "I've always felt comfortable around men as long as they were friends. Now I finally feel comfortable with my love. I don't want to be separate. I want my church. I want to live inside the religion of my own little family."

Saldana recently starred opposite Mark Ruffalo in Sony Pictures Classics' "Infinitely Polar Bear," which tackles the story of a bipolar father taking care of two strong-willed daughters while his wife finishes graduate school in New York City. The movie was directed and scripted by Maya Forbes, Deadline wrote.

As for those critics saying that she is too light-skinned to portray iconic musician Nina Simone in the biopic "Nina," Saldana said that the story needed to be told because the singer "deserves it," Fox News Latino reported.

The actress added that she was "willing to sacrifice herself" for the role, seemingly echoing Michael B. Jordan's Entertainment Weekly essay in regards to the outrage surrounding his portrayal of Johnny Storm/Human Torch in the "Fantastic Four" reboot.

Saldana thinks that she is right for the part of Simone, insisting that an artist is "colorless" and "genderless," Fox News Latino noted.

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