“It hasn’t changed as much as we had hoped,” she said. The newest Hollywood Diversity Report from the University of California Los Angeles revealed that only 7.7% of acting roles are given to Latinos despite having the highest per-capita theater attendance among all ethnicities in the US. However, while strides in representation and inclusion have been made since the film’s release, Moreno believes that Latinos are still severely underrepresented in the entertainment industry. In the original film, Moreno was one of the only Puerto Rican actors to play a Puerto Rican. “The first version–which, by the way, I loved–was very of its time.” “ determined that this time around, that respect would be shown to the Hispanic actors who were playing the sharks,” Moreno said. Moreno is perhaps most well known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1961’s “West Side Story.” The actress was invited back as an executive producer for Stephen Spielberg’s re-imagining of the film, released last year. “It kind of amuses me because it was one looney telling another that she needed help, and he was right,” she said. The actress noted that it was her then-boyfriend Marlon Brando who encouraged her to seek help, which made the audience roar with laughter “The best thing I ever did for myself ever–ever–was to go into psychotherapy because I was such an unhappy, miserable, sad, angry young woman for a very, very long time,” she said. Opening up about her mental health struggles, the actress explained that despite gaining success, undoing the damage that discrimination did to her self-worth took a lot of work. Moreno’s first big break came at only 13 years old with her Broadway debut as “Angelina” in Skydrift, and she has since appeared in projects across the entertainment industry. Glamorous, funny and blunt, Moreno guided the audience through the trials and tribulations of her long career. “It involved a great deal of pain and disappointments and hurts and being very defensive about who I was for a very long time,” she said. Moreno has long been viewed as a Hollywood icon, but she spent years being overlooked or pigeonholed by studios. Moreno explained that visual representation of Latinos in films was very limited and she grew up with a very warped perception of her own identity and value as a person because of it. She is one of only 17 individuals to win the prestigious series of EGOT awards- the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony. Moreno’s career has spanned over seven decades and 40 feature films. 20, CU Boulder’s Cultural Events Board held a conversation in the Universal Memorial Center with actress, singer and activist Rita Moreno. 20, 2022 (Courtesy of Patrick Campbell, University of Colorado) My baby is giving birth to a baby.Rita Moreno discusses her life and career with the CEB at the University Memorial Centre’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. It was the most moving experience you can possibly imagine. One of the best experiences of our lives, if not the best, next to our daughter’s birth, is helping birth our daughter’s baby,” Rita said. “Our grandchildren are the light of our lives. The Oscar Award-winning actress opened up about how much her “precious” grandchildren mean to her in a sweet February 2008 interview with Grand Magazine. to Berkeley because they “fell in love with the area” - but most importantly, they relocated to be near their two grandsons. Three years later, the couple welcomed their second son, Cameron David Fisher, making Rita a grandmother of two.īefore Leonard died, he and Rita moved from L.A. What to Know About Rita Moreno's Late Husband Leonard GordonĪfter her daughter married her husband, David Tyler Fisher, in 1996, Rita officially became a grandma following the birth of her first grandchild, Justin Gordon Fisher.
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