Hollywood is always going to be a reflection of where our culture and society are placed, especially when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality.

While there have been numerous actresses speaking on the gender wage gap and inequality across the board in Hollywood, Zoe Saldana recently credited the Science Fiction genre for its gender and color blind casting.

“It’s been brought to my attention continuously since I was born that I’m not a conventional person because of the color of my skin or my gender or my cultural background,” she said during a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph. “So I think science fiction has given me the ability as an artist to be color-blind, and gender-blind, and to imagine and reinvent myself and be the chameleon actors are supposed to be.”

We gotta admit… science fiction is pretty awesome.