“You are in for one of the great experiences of all time,” Moreno promised. Playwright Tony Kushner wrote the new version of the film. She plays Valentina, a newly-conceived character who is the widow of the original film’s “Doc,” the kindly man who ran the corner store where Anita is nearly raped.
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With Spielberg’s West Side Story, set for release December 10, the day before Moreno turns 90, in a sense the star’s career comes full circle.
I think people were surprised and delighted.” Rita Moreno in rehearsal for West Side Story, 1961 MGM Media Licensing I didn’t want on record for the rest of my life or the rest of my recognition as an actor to have on record that I lied about something deliberately. “I think it’s probably one of the reasons, if not the reason, that this documentary has gotten such praise, because there’s no bull poop… I knew that was very, very important for me, for my own self-respect. And that never changed, that objective,” Moreno said. “If I was going to do this project, it was important for me that I was going to make a promise that I would be as honest and truthful as possible. And she does not hold back on her years with Marlon Brando, a romantic relationship so turbulent that it prompted her to attempt suicide. Not only were most of the parts unfulfilling-until a supporting role in 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain playing a non-Latina, and the role of Anita in West Side Story that would win her an Oscar a decade later-but Moreno recounts being constantly subjected to sexual harassment by powerful Hollywood men, and being raped by her agent. But I had no mentors, I had nobody to guide me.” I can take full blame for accepting much of that for way too long. “But that didn’t happen until much, much later.
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Why do I always have to speak with an accent? Why do I always have to wear dark, dark, dark makeup, which is not my skin color? Why am I letting these people tell me who I am?’” she remembered thinking.
Rita Moreno in Hollywood, 1954 PBS/Loomis Dean/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Speaking about the documentary at the PBS TCA presentation Thursday, Moreno recalled a moment of reckoning about the work she was offered for so long. Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' Trailer Dances Into Oscarcast
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