Rita Moreno - 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The first Latina ever to win an Oscar and one of only 16 EGOTs ever reflects on the stereotypical casting and abusive behavior she encountered as a Hollywood starlet, working on classics like 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'West Side Story' and why she is convinced that the latter's upcoming remake — in which she appears and on which she was an EP — will avoid the pitfalls that undid another recent movie musical about Latinos in America, 'In the Heights.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 406th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood
0:13.2	Reporter's Awards podcast.
0:15.2	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a true trailblazer and a living legend.
0:20.8	A woman best known for her performances in movie musicals such as 1952's Singing in
0:25.5	the Rain, 1956's The King and I, and especially 1961's West Side Story for which she won the
0:32.4	Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, making her the first ever Latina Oscar winner.
0:38.3	She is one of only 16 people ever and only 10 people still alive who have achieved egot
0:44.0	status by winning at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
0:49.0	And she was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal
0:53.6	of the Arts in 2009, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy
0:59.6	Center Honors Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2015, and the Peabody Career Achievement
1:05.6	Award in 2019.
1:08.2	And now more than 70 years into her career, she is returning to West Side Story as an actress
1:13.9	in and executive producer of Steven Spielberg's upcoming remake of the film.
1:19.4	And she is also the subject of a documentary, the premiered at Sundance back in January,
1:24.0	was released theatrically by Roadside in June, and will debut on TV as part of PBS's American
1:29.6	Master Series on October 5th.
1:32.8	It's Marion Perez-Rierras, Rita Moreno, just a girl who decided to go for it, and she,
1:37.6	of course, is the great Rita Moreno.
1:41.0	Over the course of our conversation, the 89-year-old denied discussed her odds-defying
1:44.7	journey from Puerto Rico to Hollywood, and the stereotypical casting and abusive behavior
1:50.4	she encountered once there.
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