Zoë Saldaña tearfully apologizes for controversial role as Nina Simone: 'I should have never played Nina' - Yahoo Entertainment

Count Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoë Saldaña among those in Hollywood re-examining past choices amid the racial reckoning following the police killing of George Floyd.

“I should have never played Nina,” Saldaña said during the hourlong discussion (with Nina chat beginning around the 40-minute mark) published via her new media platform Bese.

“I should have done everything in my power, with the leverage that I had ten years ago, which was a different leverage but it was leverage nonetheless, I should have tried everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman.

Appearance-wise this is not the best choice,” the “Feeling Good” and “Sinnerman” singer’s daughter Simone Kelly said at the time.

“Nina had a life and she had a journey that should have been, and should be, honored to the most specific detail,” Saldaña continued to Canals, growing more emotional as her response carried on.

And with that said, so I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, because I love her music.

Saldaña now says she wants to see Simone’s story told by more appropriate players.

The conversation between Saldaña and Canals promised to deliver a discussion about “Afro-Latinidad, colorism in the Latinx community, Nina Simone, and more.” It certainly delivered that and more with Saldaña’s tearful apology alone.

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