We recently learned that actress Zoe Saldana would be playing the roll of Nina Simone in an up and coming movie but didn’t know she would strike this much of a resemblance…….(more pics inside)

Since the press release went out that Zoe Saldana would be playing the  legendary jazz musician/pianist, Nina Simone, a lot of people have not settled with the news and have had something to say about it, including Nina Simone‘s own daughter. A lot of people were saying that she looked nothing like Nina Simone and that her lack of physical resemblance would take away from the role.  However she is coming into the role quite nicely as we see in pics of her on the L.A. set here: