‘It’s hard being a woman in a man’s world’: Zoe Saldana opens up about breaking boundaries and why she’ll never play the ‘sexy bombshell’

zoe 2Opening up in the latest issue of Manhattan magazine, the ‘outspoken’ cover girl reveals she’s ‘driven crazy’ by inequality and goes out of her way to prove she can do anything a male can do.

‘It’s very hard being a woman in a man’s world, and I recognised it was a man’s world even when I was a kid,’ she says. ‘It’s an inequality and injustice that drove me crazy, and which I always spoke out against – and I’ve always been outspoken.

‘I love learning new skills, especially those you’re told girls aren’t good at – like parallel parking. Hey, I’m going to learn to ride a Ducati!’

That mentality also comes into play when the 35-year-old picks and chooses film roles, explaining that you’ll never see her portraying a character without substance.

To that end, ‘generic’ characters and ‘sexy bombshells’ are strictly off-limits.

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