Saldaña revealed that she almost walked away from the acting world in 2003.
However, in a recent interview with, Saldaña revealed that she almost walked away from the acting world in 2003 altogether — and those two major projects, among many others, might not have ever happened.
"'Pirates' was just too big of a production," the 44-year-old said."I just felt lost and not considered properly and overlooked. I remember thinking, ‘If this is Hollywood, then I hate it. I don’t want it. Take it, keep it.'" The director told her to be more choosy about the roles she signed on for, according to InStyle, and that guidance led her to pick movies like"Guardians of the Galaxy,""Star Trek" and, of course,"Avatar."In 2009, when stepped into the role as Neytiri in “Avatar," her life changed — but Saldaña admits that she didn't see the film's major success coming.
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