Zoe Saldana wants the 00s sequel we’ve all been waiting for – with one condition

Zoe Saldana has renewed hopes for a sequel to the beloved teen roadworthy travel movie Crossroads aft expressing her enthusiasm to reunite with co-star Britney Spears.

The Marvel star, 46, starred arsenic fashionable miss Kit who embarks connected a life-changing travel with aged friends, Mimi (Taryn Manning) and Lucy (Britney), aft precocious school graduation.

The Shonda Rhimes movie, which came retired successful 2002, initially had a mixed reception but has since been hailed a coming-of-age classical with its earthy depiction of 3 Georgian teens connected the cusp of adulthood.

All perfectly encapsulated by the film’s slogan: ‘Dreams change, friends past forever’. It besides stars Anson Mount and Kim Cattrall.

Now, successful an epoch of endless reboots and astonishment sequels (Freaky Friday, Princess Diaries, Happy Gilmore, I Know What You Did Last Summer…), determination is plentifulness of taste appetite for a check-in with our dynamic trio implicit 2 decades on.

And Zoe is successful afloat agreement.

During a crippled of Know Their Lines with Variety, the Hollywood prima addressed whether she would beryllium keen for a 2nd go-around.

‘Why not?’ she said.

‘But I consciousness similar it would lone enactment if Britney comes backmost and plays her quality again. And Taryn Manning does arsenic well, and Anson Mount. And that we constitute realistic benignant of scenarios for them. That would beryllium beautiful.’

In fact, the Avatar histrion had thing but praise for Britney, who near her a spot starstruck connected set.

She recalled: ‘It was truthful fun, but it was also, like, the archetypal clip that I was astir a large popular star. And she was conscionable truthful sought after, and yet, she was truthful down to world and benignant and approachable.’

The full production, which was female-heavy, was inspiring for Zoe who was inactive successful the infancy of her career.

‘Producers, the filmmaker, casting director, the formed — being astir an all-woman satellite gave maine conscionable a bully small kick. I was like, “Oh, I wanna beryllium similar this each the time”.’

What’s more, she shared her joyousness astatine seeing sequels for films crossed genres and clip periods.

She explained: ‘We’ve been surviving the past 20 years successful the satellite of sequels. Usually, you thought that sequels were lone for enactment movies oregon superhero movies, and now, sequels tin unrecorded successful each kinds of genres.’

Whether Zoe’s wishes travel existent remains to beryllium seen, particularly considering Britney’s tumultuous acquisition filming Crossroads. It marked the archetypal and past movie she starred successful (although she famously astir clinched the pb role successful 2004 romance The Notebook).

In her 2023 memoir, The Woman In Me, she explained why.

‘That was beauteous overmuch the opening and extremity of my acting career, and I was relieved,’ she wrote successful the book.

The Toxic hitmaker continued: ‘My occupation wasn’t with anyone progressive successful the accumulation but with what acting did to my mind.

‘I didn’t cognize however to interruption retired of my character. I truly became this different person. Some radical bash Method acting, but they’re usually alert of the information that they’re doing it. But I didn’t person immoderate separation astatine all.’

As for Zoe, her vocation has gone from spot to spot since her Crossroads days and she astir precocious appeared successful the acclaimed movie Emilia Perez other Selena Gomez.

There is Oscars buzz for her relation arsenic high-powered lawyer Rita, to which she told Variety: ‘Whatever the outcome, I privation to marque definite that it doesn’t instrumentality distant the information that Emilia Pérez was impactful successful my life.

‘It gave maine a lot, and I gave a batch for it. If I get the recognition, it would beryllium a imagination travel true, but I’m taking it time by day.’

Crossroads is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.

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