She said Tony Kushner, who wrote the movie’s screenplay, and Steven Spielberg, who directed and co-produced the movie, traveled to Puerto Rico when they were working on the movie and met with officials at the University of Puerto Rico. “I tell you I was without words, because I was so shocked at that kind of response, which shows you that he knew nothing.”īut the most recent version of the musical, with Moreno serving as an executive producer, couldn’t have been more different, Moreno said. It streaks, and this isn’t my color anyway, and I’m Puerto Rican,'” Moreno said.īut when Moreno asked why she had to wear makeup darker than her natural skin tone, the makeup artist looked at her and asked, “What, are you racist?”
“I said (to the makeup artist), ‘I hate this makeup.
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“When you’re as wounded as I was - and I was really, really wounded - I don’t know that you ever really get healed, but I think what happens is that you learn how to deal with your hurts,” she said.ĭecades ago when Moreno played “Anita” in the 1961 version of “West Side Story,” the makeup they made her wear was really dark - way darker than her natural skin tone, she said. (Patrick Campbell, CU Boulder - Courtesy photo)Īward-winning actress, singer, dancer and “West Side Story” star Moreno spoke at the University of Colorado Boulder on Tuesday night on a range of topics, including the start of her acting career, her skincare routine, her mom and her roles in both the new and old versions of the musical “West Side Story.” Rita Moreno is one of a few performers to have won entertainment’s grand slam of prestigious awards - the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony. “It took me eight years on and off to really understand that I was a good person,” Moreno said. It wasn’t until her boyfriend at the time, Marlon Brando, suggested that she start psychotherapy, that she finally found herself. It involved a great deal of pain and disappointments and hurts and being very defensive about who I was for a very, very long time.”Īfter years of being called derogatory names while walking to school as a child, Moreno loathed who she was or who she thought she was, she said. What Moreno didn’t realize was that for a Puerto Rican woman like her, there was more to it than just being a movie star. Rita Moreno longed to see someone in film who looked like her.īut when she never found that person, she decided to become the representation in Hollywood for Puerto Ricans and people of other ethnicities in America.
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