And I found that I was my own worst enemy. I couldn't take being humiliated anymore. The only thing that really stopped it - and that was my intention at the time - was my attempted suicide. And then I would succumb to Marlon's charms and go back to him for the 20th time. My relationship with Marlon depended on what was happening at my psychotherapist's. On her toxic relationship with Brando and her attempted suicide He was very simple and he was boring, Elvis. And it was to make Marlon jealous, really. So for a short while there, I had the two kings of different things, show business royalty.
And on top of that, we had an extraordinary sexual relationship. He was the king of movies and the king of everything. I had a very warped and twisted notion of what a real man was like. And here we are many, many, many years later with another edition of this film about to be released in December - by the way, when I will, literally, the day before we open, be 90 years old. I think they missed the part about Romeo and Juliet, which I thought was the genius of this. There were people, particularly in Puerto Rico, who were not thrilled because they felt that depicting Puerto Ricans as gang members was offensive and insulting. And it helped to inform a lot of people who were not Hispanic about what we were about - and that was important and absolutely fabulous. This was an extraordinary, extraordinary experience in every possible way. was also almost beyond the point, because we were just so glad to be paid attention to for a change. The fact that there was a person playing a Puertorriqueña in a huge, successful musical was enough for a lot of Hispanics - not just Puerto Ricans - in this country to be thrilled to pieces. I can't do this to my people," she says.Īlt.Latino Rita Moreno On Acting In Your 80s: 'You Don't Just Suddenly Turn To Dust' "And it suddenly occurred to me, Oh my God, I can't sing that!. You ugly island, island of tropic diseases." Just before she signed the West Side Story contract, she remembered a troubling verse in the song " America" in which she'd have to sing: "Puerto Rico. "It represented a lot of breakthroughs for young actors of Hispanic origin."īut Moreno nearly didn't take the part. "What was important about Anita to me - and still is - is that Anita, believe it or not, was the only part I ever remember where I represented Hispanics in a dignified and positive way," she says. mainland from Puerto Rico in 1936 and spent years working as a contract player for MGM, landed her breakout role as Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story. That changed when Moreno, who moved with her mother to the U.S.
"Certainly not for little Puerto Rican girls like me." "There was no such thing then," she says. Rita Moreno won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story.Īctor Rita Moreno never had an on-screen, Latina role model as a child.
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