'Guardians Of The Galaxy' At Comic-Con: Zoe Saldana Says She's Happy To Go Green For Alien Role

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"Guardians of the Galaxy" at Comic-Con: Zoe Saldana shines.

SAN DIEGO — How many more colors can Zoe Saldana be on the big screen?

"Well, the rainbow has a lot of colors," Saldana said in an interview at Comic-Con, laughing. "I dig it. I like being in space. I get to play less girlfriends, more female parts, more women. So I find it meaty."

The actress portrays green-skinned alien Gamora in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" after going blue in James Cameron's "Avatar," a role she's expected to return to for sequels. And she recently reprised her other space-bound character, Uhura, in JJ Abrams' "Star Trek Into Darkness."

"It's a testament to how creative the people that conceive supernatural and science-fiction kind of stories," Saldana, 35, said of her love for the genre. "They're able to build something out of nothing by just imagining it. I have a huge fascination with that. Filmmakers like JJ, like ("Guardians" director) James (Gunn), like James Cameron. ... You need to be really, really special to do that. So I like being with special people."

Chris Pratt is among Saldana's co-stars in "Guardians," which had been filming for just a few weeks in the U.K. before its actors dropped in to show fans footage at Comic-Con.

Pratt plays Peter Quill, an interplanetary gunslinger known as Star-Lord who assembles a team of aliens to do battle. His character's wit and rebellious spirit has been compared to another planet-hopper, Han Solo.

"You can make the comparison, that's for sure," Pratt said, acknowledging that like "Star Wars," `'Guardians" – set for release next summer – is "a big space opera."

Saldana was more emphatic: "It's an awesome comparison. Are you kidding me? Harrison Ford!"

But Pratt, 34, said he has more pressing concerns as he returns to set.

"I just feel like, I'm hoping every day that they're not going to fire me," he said. "I'm like, `So you saw dailies yesterday and I still have my job?' They say `Yeah!' So for now I do."

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Dr. Susan Engel, Development Psychologist, On How To Raise A Happy And Healthy Child (VIDEO)

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The key to raising successful kids? Depends on how you define "success," says author and leading development psychologist, Dr. Susan Engel.

At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June, Engel talked to HuffPost Live about the mistakes parents make while raising their children.

"Part of it is the idea that if they just do everything right, they can make their child exactly what they want them to be," she said, "And part of it is the idea that what they want them to be is highly successful, in what I consider to be somewhat outdated or useless notions of what success is."

Engel explained that the secret to having a happy, healthy child largely involves letting go and recognizing him or her as an independent person.

Engel first popularized the idea in a 2011 New York Times op-ed titled, "Let Kids Rule the School," in which she followed a group of eight public high school students who developed their own curriculum and ended up learning more than they ever had in a traditional classroom.

When asked her thoughts on HuffPost's Third Metric, Engel responded, "I realized that success has to do with finding some sense of meaning and purpose in life, some sense of joy and some sense of personal connection."

This video is part of a series of interviews with speakers, attendees and panelists at The Aspen Ideas Festival, produced by The Huffington Post in conjunction with The Aspen Institute. For more videos from the series, click here. For more information about The Aspen Institute, click here.