Zoe Saldana Made A Tearful Apology For Playing Nina Simone In 2016

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Zoe Saldana Made A Tearful Apology For Playing Nina Simone In 2016
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The actor wore dark-skinned makeup and a nose prosthetic to portray the High Priestess of Soul.

co-creator Steven Canals."I should've 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've tried everything in my power to cast a Black woman to play an exceptionally perfect Black woman.""I thought back then that I had the permission because I was a Black woman. And I am. But, it was Nina Simone.

"I want her story to be told, and I want it to be right, because she deserves it. I know better today and I'm never gonna do that again. Never," she concluded.

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