During a Thursday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Avatar star Zoe Saldana opened up about family life with husband Marco Perego-Saldana and their 6-month-old twins Cy and Bowie.

“It’s great. It’s a blessing. We know because people keep telling us,” Saldana joked of having multiples. “No, we’re very, very happy. It’s just like whatever you do—if you change a diaper and you put one down, it’s like you have to do it all over again. That’s when they’re in a good mood. But if they’re having a tantrum and it’s at the same time.”

The actress went on to talk about the challenges of raising twins.

“Sleep training twins is no joke because you put one to sleep and you lay him down, and the other one has been asleep, but then that one wakes up and the other one wakes up so then everybody’s crying, then my husband and I are crying…You’re like, ‘Oh, my God,’” she shared.

She added: “It’s overwhelming because there are so many different methods. Just the other day, my sister, who has a 9-month-old, shared with us the method that she did. She brought the piece of paper and grabbed us both with a bottle of vodka. She goes, ‘What do you guys have?’ That’s how her and her husband did it. Because the moment you hear your child cry, it’s like it rips the guts out of you. And it’s like, we have two. It’s crazy. So there’s a bottle of Skinnygirl and we had the monitor with the volume all the way high. We have this little note thing, this log that you have to be logging in all the time. We put them down, say ‘mommy and daddy love you’ in Italian and Spanish—well get to that later—and then we walk out and they’re having a meltdown. So then you have to time it, then you go in. And my sister, I’m like, ‘Can we go in? Can we go in?’ ‘OK, go in now.’ And we go in and I’m like, ‘What do we do?’ No eye contact, just say ‘mommy and daddy love you’—in Italian and Spanish—and she would come pull us out. So by the third time, it had been 45 minutes already. We were kind of buzzed. It’s heart wrenching. My husband doesn’t drink and he’s like, ‘Gimme that bottle!’”

The Book of Life actress, 36, continued to talk about sleep training the twins.

“So then we go and we just finally abort. We abort mission,” the Guardians of the Galaxy actress said. “We take our kids. I take one, he takes the other, and we’re both crying. The boys’ bodies are, like, their bodies are weeping…and you go, ‘Oh, my God, he’s never going to forgive me for this.’ And then, Marco and I are talking in the room going, ‘It’s not for us. It’s too archaic. There has to be a more gentle method. They did it because they’re insensitive. They don’t care about their children.’ My sister’s outside with the monitor at full volume—and our best friend! They were just like, ‘We get it.’”

When Kimmel suggested having the twins sleep in separate rooms, Saldana said, “They wake each other up. I don’t know. They were born together. It’s unnatural to separate them,” she shared. “In my mind, it just makes sense.”

The mom-of-two went on to say her twins will be trilingual.

“I don’t know what they’re going to speak because right now we’re talking to them in English and Italian and Spanish,” Saldana said. “What’s most confusing is my mom would like to be called a certain way as a grandmother. In Spanish it’s mama. So I’m mommy. And then his mother is la nonna. I’m like, ‘How are they going to do this between la nonna, mama and mommy?’ I kind of have a feeling their first is going to be ‘English.’ Like, ‘Ugh, English! English! This is America!’”

Saldana recently made headlines for revealing that her husband took her surname.

“Nobody laughs!” she said. “Men don’t laugh in the room.”

She went on to say that he is Perego-Saldana and she goes by Saldana-Perego.

Kimmel then asked, “Did you make him do that?”

“No! Oh, my God!,” she replied. “Why does it mean a woman has to like hold a gun, like, ‘You’re gonna be Saldana!’ I took his. Why doesn’t that make it in the news? We hyphened.”

She went on to joke: “I was a gentleman and I allowed the boys to Perego-Saldana.”