And to see her now being herself after so many years of her playing someone that she was not, I think it was important.” those costumes were also all the different personalities that she’s playing - that’s not her.
So I put those things together, her mom putting her dresses and making her dress up in all these different costumes, because since she was a little girl she’s been performing, so that was my first image. “I got inspired by her her mom used to make her dresses. “Reading her book, I realized that she had to be someone that she didn’t want to be,” Pérez Riera said. Times Talks Sundance panel sponsored by Chase Sapphire. Moreno was joined by the film’s director, Mariem Pérez Riera, producers Brent Miller and Ilia Velez and music composer Kathryn Bostic during the virtual L.A. (Moreno most recently starred in the reboot of Lear’s “One Day at a Time.”)
RITA MORENO DOCUMENTARY TV
The documentary counts Broadway’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as TV legend Norman Lear, among its executive producers. The veteran actress reflects on her career and more intimate moments - including her attempted suicide, as well as the prejudice she endured as a Puerto Rican transplant in New York - in “ Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It,” which made its debut Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. As far as I was concerned, I had won that Oscar and it was just, ‘Rita Moreno had won that.’ I didn’t know at the time, really, that I was representing.
“And I wasn’t because I didn’t think of myself in that way. But the actress, who battled the pain of typecasting early in her career - and questioned her worth because of it - couldn’t see, in the moment, how history-making her career would be for those who came after her. Rita Moreno has received just about every major award and accolade possible for an entertainer - most notably becoming the first Latina actress to win an Academy Award.