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" Zoe Saldana knows how to avoid the paparazzi. At 4:30 p.m. on a weekday, wearing a black sundress she picked up in Puerto Rico and a simple wedding band, the gorgeous dominico-puertorrique\u00F1a slips into Won Kok, a cavernous cafeteria-like Chinese restaurant in downtown L.A. &amp;quot;An actress is like a stock,&amp;quot; she explains as she helps herself to noodles and dumplings from an enormous lazy Susan. &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re in high demand because you have three movies coming out or you&amp;#039;ve gone through a breakup, you&amp;#039;ll look outside your window and see photographers. But you can also live a very anonymous life if you choose.&amp;quot; If Saldana is a stock, consider her the hottest investment yet. A year ago, she secretly married sexy Italian artist Marco Perego after a whirlwind romance. This month, she&amp;#039;ll star in Guardians of the Galaxy, the kind of big-budget sci-fi action film that made her a household name after her appearance in Avatar. When she&amp;#039;s not busy filming, she&amp;#039;s hard at work at the production company she runs with her two sisters, creating Hispanic content for movies and TV. And life is only getting better. &amp;quot;At 35, you make better choices in men or partners, divorce people and situations that are not right for you, and learn to say &amp;#039;no&amp;#039; with a smile,&amp;quot; she says, flashing a dazzling grin. Sounds like she&amp;#039;s hearing a lot of yeses.  You lived in the D.R. from ages 10 to 17. How identified were you with your Latina heritage growing up? Super identified. Spanish was my first language. Then you go to school, and within a month you&amp;#039;re completely an English baby. So that&amp;#039;s the battle you&amp;#039;re always having: It&amp;#039;s English out there and Spanish in the house. I don&amp;#039;t say &amp;quot;mommy,&amp;quot; I say &amp;quot;mami.&amp;quot; When you were a kid, did you try to lose the accent in order to fit in? No, because I never felt ashamed of being Latina. This is a country based on immigration. During our earliest years, my sisters and I were surrounded by love and equality. If anything, I carry the fact that I am a &amp;quot;real American&amp;quot; with so much pride. What is it like to be a black Latina when you&amp;#039;re called for roles \u2014 are you compared to other actresses? I&amp;#039;m sure I&amp;#039;m compared to everything behind closed doors. Now that I&amp;#039;m a producer \u2014 and I&amp;#039;ve been in the director&amp;#039;s chair as well, for my Rosemary&amp;#039;s Baby remake \u2014 I sympathize with what producers go through. We&amp;#039;re in the business of making movies, and sometimes you have to make political decisions that get in the way of the art. To what extent do you fight to tell Latina stories? First, I want to tell good stories. After that, I want to see an accurate depiction of Americans. When I&amp;#039;m sitting in the theater, I&amp;#039;m surrounded by people from all walks of life; we&amp;#039;re not just Caucasian. And when art doesn&amp;#039;t imitate life, there&amp;#039;s an imbalance. What&amp;#039;s the challenge of being a woman in Hollywood? Throughout history, for every five doors that have opened for a man, only one has opened for a woman. So the moment another woman comes along \u2014 especially a younger one \u2014 she gets picked on instead of embraced. I&amp;#039;m 35, and I don&amp;#039;t want to be afraid of the 22-year-olds. I&amp;#039;m actually in a better place than they are. Who are your real-life girlfriends? I&amp;#039;m definitely not a girly-girl; my sisters and I are thugs! Sometimes we don&amp;#039;t even know how to console each other. We&amp;#039;ll be like [pretends to pat her sister on the shoulder], &amp;quot;Wanna go get a tattoo?&amp;quot; Our husbands remind us of how feminine we are, but even they don&amp;#039;t know what we&amp;#039;re really like when we&amp;#039;re together.  More from Zoe&amp;#039;s interview: On whether her children with husband Marco Perego will learn to speak Spanish: &amp;quot;Of course [our children] will speak the languages that we speak; my sisters and I grew up learning French and speaking English and Spanish, and because of that, we&amp;#039;re able to understand Italian and Portuguese. But I&amp;#039;m going to have to make a conscious effort to speak Spanish to my children, because I speak Spanglish.&amp;quot; On what makes a man sexy: &amp;quot;A man who has a natural respect for women \u2014 I don&amp;#039;t want a man who worships me: Stay away from those. Worshipping doesn&amp;#039;t count as really seeing me. I like men who work with women, are challenged by women, learn from women.&amp;quot; On the most essential quality for a good sex life: &amp;quot;To be uninhibited. I&amp;#039;m not talking about bringing in a third person or watching porn all night: That&amp;#039;s what leads people to believe they are amazing in bed when they&amp;#039;re the worst ever. Pornography is not sex education \u2014 it&amp;#039;s the opposite! Don&amp;#039;t allow insecurities to close you off. Be creative.&amp;quot;  For more of Zoe Saldana&amp;#039;s exclusive interview and photo shoot with Cosmopolitan for Latinas, pick up the issue on newsstands August 12 or click here to subscribe to the digital edition.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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