From 2017: The Many Accents of Rita Moreno
In The Thick
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Our Best of ITT series continues with this episode from January 2017. Maria and Julio lead a discussion with legendary actress Rita Moreno about her star-turning role in “West Side Story” and her role in the reboot of Norman Lear’s classic television series, “One Day at a Time.” As they go behind the scenes of many of her most recognizable roles, both old and new, they get into issues of representation, accents, and race.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dear ITT listener, it's Mariano Hosa. In this edition of our best of ITT series, |
| 0:16.8 | which I am just loving so much. I mean, so many fabulous memories. Ah, I'm so glad |
| 0:24.6 | we've done this show. Anyway, on this episode, we have none other than the incredible |
| 0:29.4 | Rita Moreno. We interviewed her back in 2017 to discuss the reboot to the classic television |
| 0:36.3 | show One Data Time. Oh my god, it was such a great interview. By the way, I love One Data Time. |
| 0:42.8 | This is one of those episodes where there was a lot of laughter that went along with the really |
| 0:48.0 | deep conversation that we had about accents, about representation, about race. I mean, |
| 0:54.5 | this show, it was just so hilarious. So Puerto Rican centric that at one point, Rita even |
| 1:02.0 | told Julio to shut up when he was geeking out about the original One Data Time. And by the way, |
| 1:07.6 | yeah, the issue of accents, we made it both truly complex and also absurd. So only the fabulous |
| 1:16.8 | Rita Moreno could give us such an amazing endearing conversation. Let's get to it. And we hope |
| 1:22.6 | that you enjoy this pre-pandemic episode from January 10th of 2017. |
| 1:31.3 | I also had extremely dark makeup. I said to the makeup man, |
| 1:34.8 | one day, my god, why do we all have to be the same color? We're making Puerto Ricans |
| 1:39.1 | or French and Spanish and whatever you have. And the makeup man actually said to me, what are you |
| 1:45.6 | racist? Welcome to In the Bigger Podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 1:55.9 | And joining us is the incredible Rita Moreno. Perhaps the most acclaimed Latina actress alive today. |
| 2:01.6 | One of only 12 people in history, I love saying this, Rita. And perhaps she's the only Latina or Latina |
| 2:07.7 | to have an egot, which of course is an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony. And yeah, she's also won |
| 2:14.5 | the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. So Rita, |
| 2:18.8 | it's great to have you. Oh, Rita Moreno. Oh, yeah, listen, here's the thing. I'm no longer an egot. |
| 2:26.2 | I am a key guts because of the Kennedy Center award. There's also an recipe under that. |
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