Zoe Saldaña only has wonderful things to say about her time with the cast of Emilia Perez. On Monday, Sept. 30, Saldaña, 46, appeared alongside her Emilia Perez costars Edgar Ramírez, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz for the Spanish-language musical's New York Film Festival premiere at the Lincoln Center.

The Cannes best actress winner will record a career-retrospective conversation with THR's Scott Feinberg in front of a festival audience at the SCAD Museum of Art at 5:15pm ET on Friday, Nov. 1.

Zoe Saldana says, "The secret is to just follow your heart." The actor, who said she suffers from anxiety, told the AP that giving 120% is "just the customary amount of labor and sacrifice that you put into something you love.