Updated 10:51 PM EDT, Wed, Apr 17, 2024

Zoe Saldana Talks Hollywood & Child Care: 'Star Trek' Actress Says Balance is 'Most Exhausting'

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For Zoe Saldana, juggling child care and her acting commitments in Hollywood are no easy feat, which is why she stood up for her fellow working moms in a recent interview.

Sitting down in an interview for USA Today, Saldana opened up about how her pregnancy affected her career. The "Infinitely Polar Bear" actress, who is married to Marco Perego, gave birth to twin boys named Cy and Bowie last December.

"Let me tell you something, it will never be the right time for anybody in your life that you get pregnant," Saldana told USA Today, recounting how the productions she was set to work in "sort of had a panic."

She continued, "I heard through the grapevine there was even a conversation of me being written off of one of the projects. I was like, 'Oh, my God, are you kidding me? It's this bad?' Right when I just feel super-duper happy, is that inconvenient for you? That me, as a woman in my thirties, I finally am in love and I am finally starting my life? And it's (screwing) your schedule up? Really?"

Maya Forbes' "Infinitely Polar Bear" also stars Mark Ruffalo as a bipolar father taking care of his two daughters while his wife finishes graduate school in NYC, Deadline wrote. 

Saldana also highlighted in her interview with USA Today about the sexism existing in Hollywood. According to the 38-year-old movie star, production studios "spend more money sometimes 'perking' up male superstars in a movie," and paying for the actors' private jets, bodyguards, assistants, or booking penthouses and yachts, the news outlet added.

"But then a woman comes in going, 'OK, I have a child. You're taking me away from my home. You're taking my children away from their home. And you're going to make me work a lot more hours than I usually would if I was home. Therefore, I would have to pay for this nanny for more hours -- so I kind of need that. And they go, 'Nope, we don't pay for nannies'," Saldana explained to USA Today.

Despite the challenges of being a working mom with a hectic schedule, Saldana insisted that she is grateful for her job and that balancing it all out is the key struggle.

"That's the most exhausting thing, the balance of it all. But it helps when you're doing it with your companion. If I know Marco is trying to balance it as well, then I feel like I'm not alone," she told the news outlet.

Paramount Pictures, which will produce Saldana's next film "Star Trek," was contacted by USA Today in regards to the actress' statement. The company, however, refused to comment. Saldana's representative, Gary Mantoosh, said that "the (child care) issue had been resolved prior to when this interview was conducted" and that productions always have negotiations, the news outlet added.

Just recently, the "Guardians of the Galaxy" star also revealed in an interview that her husband opted to use her last name instead of the other way around, Fox News Latino reported.

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