There are no sales modified her opinion in the 10 years since the interview with The Hollywood Reporter, but in more recent ones she seems a little more measured when talking about "Pirates". In 2022 interview with Entertainment Weeklyshe put less emphasis on the "elitist" vibe and more on it being a set with a lot of moving pieces, where an inexperienced actor like herself struggled to keep up.

“It was my first exposure to a big Hollywood mega-movie, where there were just so many actors and so many producers and so many crew members. We shot in different locations, and sometimes the environment was not so favorable for our shooting. I was very young, and it was just a little too big for me, and the pace was a little too fast."

One reason Saldaña's anger cooled may be because "Pirates" producer Jerry Bruckheimer reached out to her and apologized for her negative experience. Saldaña said (in an interview with the BBC) that Bruckheimer's apology "felt really honourable" to her. In an interview with Buzzfeed in the UK, she spoke even more fondly of Curse of the Black Pearl—“What a great movie. It was all around such a diverse cast, all ages, all walks of life, but a hard production. It was so big! It was too big a machine for me and it was too out of control."

Saldaña was, again, the only Pirates star so far from filming that she didn't return. That said, other accounts support her claims that it was a chaotic set. The film was shot over five months (October 2002 to March 2003) between sets in Los Angeles and on location in the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Michael Eisner, Disney's CEO at the time, didn't believe in the project either, so that meant inconsistent support from the top.

Speaking of Collider in 2021, "Pirates" director Gore Verbinski indicated that only chaos increased during the simultaneous filming of City of the Dead and At World's End.

"After ('Curse of the Black Pearl') was successful, 'Pirates 2' and '3' began to enter the 'release date driven experience.' It has a calendar and dates and “we need two more of these babies. How quickly can you do that?'

If Saldaña couldn't handle how "big" the first Pirates shoot was, I can't imagine she would have been happy doing the second and third. Me However, I am happy that he stayed in Hollywood despite the bad first impression.