Rita Moreno on ‘West Side Story,’ Turning 90 and Why She Will Never Retire

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Rita Moreno on ‘West Side Story,’ Turning 90 and Why She Will Never Retire
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🎶 'Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight, I saw you and the world went away.' 🎶⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ WestSideStory opened in theaters 60 years ago today.⁠⁠

may be turning 90 in December, but the actor dreads the thought of being typecast as a woman over a certain age.

On the phone with Moreno, with her pithy jabs and four-letter expletives flying freely, you’d never know she’s about to be a nonagenarian. “Oh, I have a potty mouth,” she says with a laugh. “It’s not a question of liking to curse,” she clarifies. “It just comes out. I don’t say fuck because it makes me smile. There are plenty of times I say ‘Oh dear,’ but nobody pays attention to that.”

It didn’t have a negative impact on her work, at least, not one she’s aware of. “If people wanted to criticize us, they didn’t want to reveal themselves,” she says before pausing. “I’m sure if that happened now, you’d hear from a good portion of the United States in a very nasty way.” Moreno spent much of the pandemic hunkered down in Northern California, getting rid of “crap” in her house and selling some of the nicer items to a local consignment shop. “The place I go to sell my very pretty stuffBeing home has its benefits, she says, but Moreno is eager to resume normal life and misses the glitz of awards shows, galas and industry gatherings. She will return to the screen in’s “West Side Story” remake, which opens in theaters on Dec. 10, the day before her 90th birthday.

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