ACTRESS Zoe Saldana has opened up about her marriage to husband, Marco Perego, in this month’s InStyle magazine revealing the Italian actor took her name when they married.

“I tried to talk him out of it. 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 s--t’.”

The couple secretly tied the knot two years ago.

While it’s now common for women to take their husband’s last name as well as keeping their own it’s still relatively unheard of for a man to take his wife’s last name.

The couple welcomed their twin boys Cyand Bowie in November 2014 and Zoe revealed to the magazine how Marco has changed her.

“Since I’ve been with Marco, I’ve been lowering my guard,” she said.

“Finally when we had our boys, I looked at my husband and I realised: I was meant for you and you were meant for me. I’ve always felt comfortable around men as long as they were friends. Now I finally feel comfortable with my lover. I don’t want to be separate. I want my church. I want to live inside the religion of our own little family.”