Who is Zoe Saldaña’s Italian producer husband, Marco Perego? The Avatar actress met her partner on a flight to New York, and they’re raising their 3 kids in a ‘gender-neutral environment’

“Zoe is a little spicy as a Latina, and I say to Zoe, ‘I’m going to New York. I need to do something for work,’” Perego-Saldaña said. “I actually went to the Dominican Republic, [to say] thanks [to] her stepfather and all the family who support me.”

But when I arrived back to London … she said, ‘Where you been?’ And I say, ‘I’ve been in a place, but you need to wait a couple of hours and I’ll let you know.’”

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Apparently, Zoe didn’t take the deflection well, until Perego showed her a video of himself asking her late father for his daughter’s hand in marriage.

Here’s everything we know about the Avatar actress’ handsome – and smitten – husband:

What is Marco Perego-Saldaña famous for?

Perego-Saldaña has a creative background. According to Cosmopolitan, he is an Italian artist, producer, writer and director. His projects have included short film Me + Her, Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story and The Absence of Eden, where his wife plays an undocumented immigrant named Isabelle, per his IMDB.

Did Zoe Saldaña’s husband take her last name?

Yup. “I tried to talk him out of it,” Saldaña confirmed in an interview with InStyle. “I told him, ‘If you use my name, you’re going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world.’ But Marco looks up at me and says, ‘Ah, Zoe, I don’t give a sheet.’”

“He liked it,” she said to Us Weekly, “He wanted to really represent being a part of my family and represent my father’s legacy. He respected the fact that he didn’t want me to have to give up my name just because that’s the norm.”

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How did Zoe Saldaña meet her husband?

They live in a “gender-neutral environment”

The Perego-Saldañas reportedly promote a “gender-neutral environment” at home. “We have a very gender-neutral environment where my husband participates in a lot of tasks that were normally given to women and vice versa,” she told Us Weekly in 2018, “I get to do a lot of male things, which is, I don’t know, put the TV together, fix things that break. We’re sort of a very gender-fluid household. I think it’s important to raise boys in that environment, and girls as well.”

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How many kids does Zoe Saldaña have?

Zoe and Marco share three children together – twins Cy and Bowie, and Zen, per Us Weekly.