Episode 885 - Rita Moreno

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Rita Moreno is a show business legend with an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony to her name, as well as several lifetime achievement awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She tells Marc about the ups and downs of her 70 year career as a singer, dancer and actor, from the highs of working with people like Jack Nicholson and Gene Kelly to the lows of racial typecasting and sexual harassment. They also talk about relief work in Puerto Rico and why Norman Lear's reboot of One Day at a Time is Rita's dream project.

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0:00.0	Lock the gate!
0:01.0	All right, let's do this.
0:11.1	How are you?
0:12.1	What the fuckers?
0:13.1	What the fuck buddies?
0:14.1	What the fuckin' ears?
0:15.1	What the fucksters?
0:16.1	What's happening?
0:17.1	I'm Mark Marin.
0:18.1	This is my podcast WTF.
0:19.1	How are you?
0:20.1	I'm pretty good.
0:21.1	I'm trying to, uh, to level off.
0:24.3	You know, uh, Rita Marinas here.
0:27.2	That was, that was an honor.
0:28.6	I must say, uh, that was great to talk to her.
0:32.5	Glow ended.
0:33.9	We shot the last episode.
0:35.5	We finished the last shots of this season, season two of the gorgeous ladies of wrestling.
0:41.6	Last Tuesday, and then we had a photo shoot, promotional photo shoot, Wednesday.
0:46.1	But yeah, so it was, it's always sort of weird in touching when a production ends because
0:51.8	you've been with these people for a few months.
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