Rita Moreno talked to the young WestSideStory cast about her early career: “I couldn’t even get auditions. That probably was the most heartbreaking aspect of my travails with show business and being in films.”
When Jessica Chastain and Rita Moreno meet to discuss their respective works, each has done her homework. Moreno has watched Chastain’s catalog, and praises “Tammy Faye” to the heavens — pun intended — while also complimenting her recent HBO series, “Scenes From a Marriage,” with Oscar Isaac. “I have to say that you and Oscar have the most gorgeous chemistry,” Moreno says.
I just finished “Zero Dark Thirty,” and I was on the press tour for it. And that character’s whole journey is about revenge and an eye for an eye. I saw the documentary “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and basically Tammy was the opposite. I mean, she was 100% believing in forgiveness and that everyone is deserving of love without judgment. And that was a healing balm for my soul after playing a character that was so revenge-driven.
But, to be honest, I feel really awkward talking so much because I wanted to talk to you. You blew my mind the first time I watched “West Side Story,” the original version. For me, it was all about you playing Anita. So when you sang “Somewhere,” that was the first time I started crying. I was so moved by that scene and by what you did, and the reexamining of that story and that world.
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