Zoe Saldana: It Isn't Easy Being Green in Guardians of the Galaxy 2

One good thing about this sequel: less time in the makeup chair.

"I shaved an hour," Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2," tells Made in Hollywood reporter Kylie Erica Mar.

Still, despite time-saving lessons learned from the original "Guardians of the Galaxy," transforming into an outer-space being does cut into the work day.

"It's too many green layers," she says. "And then you have wardrobe and you have the wig. So I went from five hours to four -- three-and-a-half."

Then there are other reasons. "I talk a lot," she says. "So I may contribute to dragging the process a little longer."

Saldana acknowledges that returning to "Guardians of the Galaxy," a blockbuster in 2014 that seemingly came out of nowhere, despite its Marvel pedigree, caused some trepidation.

"I was nervous because sometimes sequels in my mind can carry a lot more weight and have a lot more pressure on everybody because you have to purposely make it better than the first one," she says. "As soon as I sat down with the cast and with the director, nobody seemed to have that kind of pressure, so I just let go. My heart was open, my mind was open. I was like: Let's just go for a ride again."

And what a ride it was.

"I loved it," she says. "I hate to compare things, but I think it's going to be better, because now you start out at the beginning and you get to see these relationships and their bond and you get to see the personalities. It's so much fun because now we get more space for comedy -- and that's just what's amazing."