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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