Zoe Saldaña wanted Gamora to be a Guardian again – but that would have erased one of Vol 3's most emotional moments

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Zoe Saldaña has shared her thoughts on Gamora's Guardians of the Galaxy 3 journey. 

At the end of the film, Gamora – who is actually a version of herself from pre-Guardians of the Galaxy, as the 'prime' version of Gamora was killed in Avengers: Endgame – doesn't rejoin the Guardians and instead returns to the Ravagers. 

"I did. It was a bittersweet decision, obviously," Saldaña told The Hollywood Reporter (pre-SAG-AFTRA actors' strike) of appreciating the decision against having Gamora and Peter Quill rekindle their romance. "I wanted to know that in the final chapter, Gamora stays on and finds a way to become a Guardian again. But this felt like the right way to end things for her, because of what she had been through. At the end of the day, any multiverse that she would've come from, she was still going to have the same experience with Thanos [Josh Brolin], and she was still gonna have the same guilt and the same trauma. So she finally found solace with the Ravagers, and she felt more open than she had ever been."

She added: "I think the whole thing with Peter bothered her, because even though she had no recollection of who he was, she had a sense that it must have been special. And I appreciated that takeaway because it kind of gave us the hope that if the Guardians seek help again from the Ravagers, maybe Gamora and Peter will find a way back into each other's lives, even if it's just as friends."

If Gamora had rejoined the Guardians, though, one of the film's most heartbreaking moments wouldn't have happened. As emotional as Rocket Raccoon's journey is in the movie, one of the most effective gut-punches in the film comes when Peter and Gamora say goodbye. "I bet we were fun," Gamora tells him, to which Peter