Zoe Saldaña is a mum-of-three and her upcoming film Elio, a movie about kids, has made her excited.
Explaining her feelings on Good Morning America, she said, “Since becoming a parent, incorporating what I do — my art — into a genre that caters to children has always been a great interest to me. And I get to relate to them, and I also get some mad cool points as a mom.”
While promoting, Zoe also said the audience will relate to the movie’s content. “They immediately bought into the story. I think that everybody can relate to the themes that Elio talks about: About feeling like an alien in your own skin, feeling like you don’t belong.”
She continued, “But longing to be a part of a community that accepts you and sees you for who you are. My boys definitely liked it.”
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina served as directors and Mary Alice Drumm produced the movie.
The logline of the film reads, “An 11-year-old boy named Elio Solis, a space fanatic, gets beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization, and mistakenly identified as Earth’s representative.”
“Elio must then navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, and ultimately discover who he truly is.”
Zoe’s Elio arrives in cinemas on June 20.
