Each time I revisit the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, I find myself momentarily surprised when Zoe Saldaña enters the screen. “Oh right, I forgot she was in this,” I say, before wondering why she never returned for any of the sequels. Saldaña played Anamaria, a pirate and smuggler recruited by Jack Sparrow. She also had a little unfinished business with Jack, as he had “borrowed” her ship and sunk it.
While speaking with BBC Radio 1 (before the SAG-AFTRA strike began), Zoe Saldaña explained why she never returned for any of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. “I really had a not-so-good experience because of just the poor management at that time, and Jerry Bruckheimer knows this, we spoke about it eventually,” Saldaña said. “I think he read somewhere where I had expressed my discomfort and disappointment, and years later he apologized, which felt really…
