- At age 10, Saldaña initially wanted to become a competitive gymnast, but she was told she had started too late; she and her sister Cisely later competed against roughly 600 girls for places at a Dominican dance academy.
- Her ballet school graded students on their hair buns and could dismiss them from class for an imperfect one; Saldaña recalls being sent out once to fix hers.
- Spanish was her first language, and she has said its vowel sounds helped her connect with the constructed Na’vi language used in the Avatar films.
- She initially declined Special Ops: Lioness because her dyslexia made its dialogue-heavy scripts intimidating. After reconsidering, she received scripts weeks early and rehearsed daily with a line reader over Zoom.
- Underwater training for Avatar: The Way of Water enabled her to hold her breath for about five minutes.
- Saldaña created Cinestar Pictures with her sisters Mariel and Cisely, with the goal of developing material for female and Latino audiences.
- Susan Stroman choreographed the salsa sequence in Saldaña’s first film, Center Stage; Saldaña said in 2014 that she could still remember the choreography.
- Her husband, artist Marco Perego, chose to adopt her surname after their marriage, becoming Marco Perego Saldaña.
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