Zoe Saldana “felt like an imposter” early in her career.
The actor suffered from self-doubts before she established herself as a star in Hollywood.
“There was a level of exhaustion that I felt because I was always putting up this front of overconfidence,” she told Variety. “All of a sudden, I felt compelled to reassess myself and question whether or not what I have been creating and putting out there matches up to that confidence. And no, it didn’t. Realizing that it was all stemming from insecurity — because I always felt like an imposter — was very overwhelming.”
Saldana enjoyed a long run of success with “sci-fi and action films.” However, the actor felt she was “taking things for granted too much” at the time.
“I’m grateful for the things that I’ve had in my life and the way that my success has happened, but I felt stuck, in the sense that I was taking things for granted too much. I entered this cycle of doing these sequels, and for some reason, I became cavalier with them,” the Emilia Perez star said, reflecting on her career arc.
Saldana now believes that having dyslexia and anxiety led her to pursue particular film roles. Despite this, the Avatar star remains convinced that she’s much more versatile than she’s shown during her career.
“The challenges that I’ve had, they have to do with my learning abilities,” Saldana — who also stars in the Guardians of the Galaxy film franchise — said. “I have dyslexia and anxiety, which prevented me from really going after roles — a whole lot of roles — that I know I could have done.”
