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Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver apologize in advance for their paintings. In this episode of “Portrait Mode,” the ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ stars pick up their brushes and reminisce about the best directing note James Cameron ever gave them, what’s exciting them most in fashion, and Zoe’s first impression of Sigourney, the ultimate sci-fi queen. Watch as Sigourney recounts her ‘Titanic’ theater mishap and reveals she thinks Zoe should’ve won an Oscar for her role as Neytiri.   Watch ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ in theaters December 19th.   #ZoeSaldana #SigourneyWeaver #Avatar #AvatarFireandAsh #PortraitMode #BAZAAR

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00:00Hi, I'm Zoe Saldana.

00:01And I'm Sigourney Weaver.

00:02And this is Portrait Mode with Harper's Bazaar.

00:09Well, I'd like to apologize in advance to Zoe because.

00:13I think you're doing great, mommy.

00:15I haven't started yet.

00:18How would you rate your painting skills?

00:20Mine are non-existent.

00:22Total imposter.

00:23I'm married to a painter, so I just copy whatever I see him

00:27doing when he's at the studio.

00:29But it's not going to come out remotely great.

00:35Zoe, take us back to 2009.

00:37What was your first impression of Sigourney?

00:39I was truly, truly beside myself.

00:42She's Ellen Ripley and so many iconic characters

00:46that I grew up seeing.

00:47Then all of a sudden, I'm working beside her,

00:50learning from her, watching her transform

00:54from this scientist in 2007.

00:57And then now coming back as Kiri.

00:59You're witnessing Sigourney Weaver play a 14-year-old.

01:02I play her mother.

01:03I was so petrified of that teenager.

01:05Because she, no matter what I did, I couldn't.

01:08It was wrong.

01:09Everything was wrong.

01:10Yeah.

01:11She didn't want me to hug her.

01:12She didn't want me to kiss her.

01:13She didn't want me to hold her hand.

01:14I was like, I can't do anything right.

01:16You know, I have to say that Nateri is one of the greatest

01:20creations.

01:21You should have won an Oscar for that.

01:23I'm just going on record because you could also do,

01:27we made a mistake, and now we're correcting it, Oscar.

01:34Sigourney, if your character in Alien, Ellen Ripley,

01:37landed on Pandora, do you think she would survive?

01:41Oh boy, would she love it.

01:43If the alien didn't arrive with me, that would be heaven.

01:47I think that's probably what she dreams of when

01:49she's in hypersleep.

01:51I just want to say that if you look carefully,

01:53you might see a little tooth that comes from Nateri's.

01:58Cheeky.

02:00Do it for me.

02:01Do a little.

02:02See?

02:03But I haven't really done that.

02:04I'm doing that so much to my children and my husband.

02:07That's perfect.

02:09Sigourney, you have a background in theater.

02:11Do you have any theater mishap stories?

02:13It was called Titanic, and ironically,

02:17I mean, it was the most famous Titanic story

02:21until Jim Cameron made his glorious film.

02:24There was a night.

02:26I'm supposed to preset two hamster-like creatures

02:29inside my bloomers that I then turn to,

02:34I think it's my mother, and say that you killed them.

02:38Oh, it's a comedy.

02:41My comedy, of course.

02:42Of course.

02:42My parents were coming to the show.

02:45I think I was ill at ease, and I forgot to preset the hamsters.

02:49And I pretended that they were just dead, and I carried on.

02:56I think I sold it.

02:57Zoe, what's one directing note James Cameron has given you

03:04that you've never forgotten?

03:06I think he still does it.

03:08It's, you know, every time you come at him with ideas,

03:11that gets him all excited.

03:12He's always like, let's try it.

03:15That's so magnificent because it's collaborative,

03:19and it allows you to really play.

03:22Jim Cameron has created a technique.

03:27It completely is actor-centric.

03:30Now it looks like I've given you a mustache.

03:32I apologize.

03:33No, it looks like you got fillers.

03:39Zoe, what have you learned from Sigourney,

03:41the ultimate sci-fi queen?

03:43You're working together.

03:44To never stop playing, to witness you transform yourself

03:50and go back in time to a place in your life.

03:55Well, I needed healing, so I'm healing myself.

03:58It was very cathartic, and I saw that, and I felt that.

04:02I've also been in therapy for years,

04:04and God knows what other things.

04:06You're much too generous.

04:10For both of you, what's exciting you most in fashion right now?

04:13Well, I think it's all the new designers

04:15for all these huge brands.

04:17I think so, yeah.

04:18It's like the big shake-up that's happening

04:21and how they're all shifting.

04:23But these are also, so many of them are designers

04:26that have been putting in the work

04:27for all these different houses.

04:29Great designers like Anthony Vaccarello,

04:31who has been, as you know, for almost 10 years

04:34and really has distinguished that 80s, 90s woman

04:39that maybe reminds him of his mothers,

04:42the mothers in his life.

04:44And it reminds me of the women in my life

04:46and how my eight-year-old self used to view them

04:50as these iconic and sexy and just wonderful

04:55and strong women, you know?

04:57What did I just do to you?

04:58I don't know, but you made me a Navi.

05:00Yeah.

05:09I'm calling her the Ellen Ripley slash Kiri Rambo.

05:14Yeah.

05:14I'm digging it.

05:15And this is Zoe in the south of France.

05:19In the 60s.

05:2170s.

05:22In the 70s.

05:22Maybe.

05:24Maybe.

05:24I put teeth in.

05:25I just want to show you.

05:26See, I have a tooth there.

05:28There's a little tooth,

05:29because I don't want anyone to forget

05:31there's Nateri inside this beautiful,

05:33this beautiful, sweet woman.

05:35Has that inside of her.

05:38I needed more than 10 minutes,

05:40because this is something that you have to like add,

05:42and then you take away, and then you add,

05:44and then it kind of comes together.

05:46I'm just repeating what I hear my husband say.

05:47Honestly, I didn't even know what it all means.

05:50Thank you so much for watching,

05:52and be sure to watch Avatar, Fire, and Ash.

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