Extended Interview: Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose On ‘West Side Story’ Remake
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- NBC News’ Lester Holt speaks with actresses Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose about the highly-anticipated remake of “West Side Story.” This year marks the 60th anniversary of the original release.» Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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Extended Interview: Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose On ‘West Side Story’ Remake
I think it is beautiful to show all shades of the Puerto Rican ethnicity. They are all shades. People in the audience received some cultural education.
Both actresses are Puerto Rican too. I hate how the original West Side Story made us all the same shade brown
@@Jonmad17 sorry but Ariana de bose isnt Puertorrican she’s American with a dubious “father claim”
@@caribbeantigress Puerto Rico is in America. All Puerto Rican’s are Americans anyway.
Tbh they stayed so incredibly true to the original choreography and music, while giving it amazing new visuals and angles, sharper movements too at times; it was absolutely stunning. Every one who was cast for their roles were cast for very good reason 💜. They all did so GREAT! They were perfection. I recommend everyone go see this; it truly was another masterpiece; much like the original.
Two different generations of great puerto rican performers.
Im happy to see an Afro-Latina. I rarely see Afro-Latinas in film. Bravo!
She is stunning but most people now are biracial. The entire world is connected in very few generations of people. Every group has multi/shades/ skin tones. Ariana calls herself black.
@@jenniferwise8515 Arianda is not African-American, and regardless Im happy to see a sista that looks like a family member. Also, biracial people have existed for ages which is not new. Shades of black is nothing new. Black folks all over the world come in many shades, and that is with two black parents. I said what I said. Black all day!🤷
@@AuthorLHollingsworth Ariana is Afro Latina living in the USA. That makes her American.
Black is your race, latina describes a geographical location.
@@AuthorLHollingsworth She literally referred to herself as a Black woman in this interview. You don't have to be "Afro-American" to be Black. You can be "Afro-Latina too. Maybe you should not be so ignorant. YUCK!
I've watched the original multiple times. Was Anita in my high school production.
Heard about the awful remake of it on Broadway from my son, who was there opening night in March 2020.
THIS new and traditional West Side Story is rich and broadened by the reality of its time and deeper developtment of characters. This Film is Perfect in every single way. Left me in tears with a hope for more kindness, from our polarized world.
I can’t believe Rita is 90 years old now . So so active and fresh
How could she be 90? Ageless beauty!
These two beautiful talented ladies ❤️
I loved It : the iconic Rita Moreno and the Broadway "newcomer," Ariana DeBose (Summer: The Donna Summer Musical; Hamilton, A Bronx Tale) !!! It was So Good.... (Steven) Spielberg, some famous Hollywood film director (E.T.; imagine "Jaws" the shark story, as a musical), did a great job. "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat !" - Chief Brody (Roy Scheider)
Ariana has been on Broadway 10 yrs? Not a " newcomer".
This is fabulous!
Great interview. Loved the movie.
Two absolutely most beautiful women. Great interview with two intelligent women. Loved it.
Fantastic interview.
Both fabulous ❤️❤️
The scene where the Jets messed with Anita and Rita came in to stop it that made me feel for her because she was put in that same situation I was waiting for that scene to see her just stop it all .
Ariana and Rita will join Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro as actors to win Oscars for playing the same character.
YAAS
And Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix
The original movie will always be the best. The original movie has one of the best dancers and that alone makes it special. I'll watch it because of Rita and because I will always support any film that supports the Latino culture.
America is still getting to understand Latinos. They now known that we all don't look the same and that Latinos are a multi-racial and multicultural ethnic community. There word "interracial" doesn't exist in our community because we understand that at the end of the day we share the same language, cultural upbringing and el orgullo Latino.
Rita Moreno - cultural & dramatic & ethnic icon - AND nearly 90 years old now.
❤️❤️
I remember Rita on the movie and electric company I look forward to the newest version...not remake...
In fact it’s not a remake. It’s an adaptation of the stage play
@@idaf3028 Oh. I thought mv4463 meant a new version of _The Electric Company_ . Woops.
Rita, I want her vest and necklace!
Rita Moreno , unbelievable talent and beauty . Unfortunately this version of West Side Story didn't make the impact they hoped for , in both societal and box office . It's a shame because it really is well made and Rachel Zegler was phenomenal , she deserved a nomination above everyone else in the film . But as you watch all the promo , interviews , news reports about the film , all they talk about is how they got it right this time , no subtitles , all Latina & Latino cast , which is terrific, but in this tension filled world , created solely by Politicians to spread division , gain votes , people want to go to the movies to escape reality , embrace the movie , but to have these political agendas in even the promotional materials . Spielberg kept saying the Latin X community , sounds so phony, not one Latin person outside of mainstream media or political candidates has ever used Latin X, and not downplay the Spanish by having subtitles , which also alienated a good portion of the audience . So much of the film is spoken in Spanish , without subtitles. How are subtitles racist ? If you go to any other Country they use subtitles so everyone can understand the language , for every film . Hollywood is so out of touch with everyone .They got it so wrong and everyone stayed away . It lost over 100 million , Spielberg's biggest financial bomb in his whole career . Still a shame because the film was well done , incredible cast and performances .
Iconic film. However still frustrated at a few things being a Mexican American. Like 1: Why does a Latin girl not get a happy ending?
2: Why was the division and hatred and killing one another not addressed at the end of the film?
3: Why is the main white male character still portrayed as a hero, who even though he KILLS a brown man, his sister still continues to love him and ignore this fact?
Idk bout you all pero this all still irks me. The hate and division is never addressed. The only great part in my opinion, was seeing Rita Moreno's character as Valentina who was trying to help BOTH sides.
All of those points are very good points but the film is still, at its core, an adaption of Romeo & Juliet so it does need to have that tragic quality.
I actually found the character of Tony to be incredibly unlikeable after he kills Bernardo. After telling Maria how much he had changed after he nearly killed that boy and went to prison for it he shows that audience that he never changed at all. I think he would have always ended up killing someone or beating someone to death even if Maria and him had their happy ending. He had a hatred in him that couldn’t be controlled and it was always going to be someone pushing his buttons to make him explode. Whether it was Bernardo or someone 15 years into his future he was always going to end up the same way.
I understand that it's core is an adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. But my problem here is why continue to make films with this narrative for Latin girls as the star of the show? Why can't they make a film with her having a happy ending?
Why are we praising this tragic love? Why was Tony still loved despite being a killer and not changing his ways after killing a brown man?
Why was Maria portrayed as a girl who still slept with him after even after he killed her brother? I want to see positive representation in films for our Latin community.
We need to change this. There is so much work that still needs to be done. Why don't we haveatin directors directing a happy ending for a Latin girl in a big box film?
@@qtasabutton21 go watch a J Lo film. She nearly always has happy endings.
@@jenniferwise8515 There should be more representation other than just J.Lo. You realize how lame that sounds too right?
@@qtasabutton21 J Lo is probably the most famous but there are latinas in film and tv. Also young love does not usually make sense. They were operating on hormones and magnetism. Were you in a deep love as a teen?
Cuántos años tiene esta bella dama:Rita Moreno?
90 años recién cumplidos!
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Imagine the pressure meeting the original legend whom you are replacing...
They have such a strong scene together in the movie... Ariana has nerves of steel, that's all I can say
They have such a strong scene together in the movie... Ariana has nerves of steel, that's all I can say
She is not replacing her!! She is playing a version of the character she played first
@@tonysaldana7120 If you want to be politically correct, yes she is playing the character that was played by another actress. Happy now? I wish commentators would focus more on sharing their thoughts on the topics rather than just going around correcting words.
@@tomarnold7284 If she were relaxing her then the original movie would be erased from history and the only Anita to exits would be Ariana’s. But it’s not so it’s not replacing.
The 2021 version adds the Sharks singing "La Borinqueña", the official anthem of Puerto Rico, not with the peacetime lyrics, but with the revolutionary wartime lyrics.
¡Despierta, borinqueño
que han dado la señal!
¡Despierta de ese sueño
que es hora de luchar!
A ese llamar patriótico
¿no arde tu corazón?
¡Ven! Nos será simpático
el ruido del cañón.
Nosotros queremos
la libertad,
𝄆 y nuestro machete
nos la dará. 𝄇
Vámonos, borinqueños,
vámonos ya,
que nos espera ansiosa,
ansiosa la libertad.
𝄆 ¡La libertad,
la libertad! 𝄇
Arise, boricua!
The call to arms has sounded!
Awake from the slumber,
it is time to fight!
Doesn't this patriotic
call set your heart alight?
Come! We are in tune with
the roar of the cannon.
We want
freedom,
𝄆 and our machete
will give it to us. 𝄇
Come, Boricuas,
come now,
since anxiously awaits us
anxiously, freedom,
𝄆 freedom,
freedom! 𝄇
Great breaking news that a DC appeals court has ruled against former President Trump on White House record! 😄👍
Bad breaking news that Biden and his administration have the same contempt for REAL journalism and the journalists who do that work. Let Julien Assange go!
@@neiladlington950 Trump hounded assange just as Biden is now
Isn’t it a little hypocritical that on the one hand Rita praises the casting of an Afro Latina for Anita, then on the other complains that the makeup used for the sharks in 61 was offensively dark and “muddy”?
I think the context is different. In a different interview from this, Rita recalls she pointed out to a make up artist on the set of WSS -- "You know, Puerto Ricans are all different colors, why can't we be different skin colors because its more accurate? I'm already Puerto Rican and some of us are lighter" (paraphrasing) and the make up artist replied "What, are you racist?" which is a weird response and she didn't know how to reply to it.
Rita's issue was more than Latino people were not being represented authentically or accurately whatsoever, and were forced to represent medium skinned stereotypes with awful make up, even when she, a real Latina, didn't look like that. Some Latinos do! But light skinned people shouldn't be made to wear brown face to force a stereotype.
Ariana's context is different. By this time, things have progressed and issues of colorism and preference for light skin in marginalized communities are being discussed. There's more of a push and a desire for authentically dark skinned and afro latinos to represent their part of the community.
So that's why it's a wonderful thing Ariana can play Anita as an Afro-Latina and Rita can also point out how it was wrong 1960s Hollywood forced her to wear brown face as a light skinned Puerto Rican.
She was complaining about brown face. If you're going to put brown people on screen, hire brown people. She also made the point that making Puerto Ricans all the same shade makes zero sense because Puerto Ricans come in all colors (as you can see when Rita sits next to Ariana, both of whom are Puerto Rican).
Rita is full of *it* regarding her alleged "love" for an Afro-Latina lead.... all due respect.
How so?
@@jonathandoelander6130 When In The Heights was criticized for colorist casting and not having dark-skinned leads, Rita Moreno went out of her way during a late night talk show to say, "Canʻt you just wait a while and leave it alone? Lin-Manuel isnʻt the right person to attack." She later walked it back, but like... yeah. Afro-Latine representation isnʻt near the top of her priorities.
@@LarrySonOfMilton Yeah but that was just one show. And the show was autobiographical. I thought you meant she said something directly about Afro-Latinos.
@@jonathandoelander6130 I'm not OP, just offering context.
Imo I don't think she's against AfroLatinos, I think she just cares less about Black representation than protecting LMM's feelings. This is why this clip comes off kinda rich.
@@LarrySonOfMilton Well, LMM is a hero to Puerto Ricans in general and particularly to Puerto Ricans in theater. So yes, she could be protective. But Lyn was telling a story representing his ow neighborhood when and where he grew up. I have the feeling that he probably portrayed it the way he remembers it. Washington Heights is only 14% black. I think LMM's cast was also at least 14% black. So it may not even be a valid criticism.
Her mother is white, therefore her heritage is not just Latin, its white as well. But she dismisses that in her statement that she could embrace her heritage. Yet in embracing that part she dismisses the other. So is she ashamed of having white ancestry? I don't get it, if we want equality why are we making big deals about ancestry? Shouldn't we be celebrating all heritage, not just pieces of it.
Im sure she doesn’t dismiss her white ancestry but in most people’s eyes she’s is seen as a woman of color. So people will treat her as such and she’ll be subjected to the same barriers that people of color face.
@@chatapratt7680 Most peoples? She's literally black. She's perceived as a woman of color by literally everyone.
@@Jonmad17 Yes I just said that because she is mixed. But you’re right pretty much everyone will perceive her as black because of her skin color
This comment gave me cancer like wth are you talking about. Are you blind? 🤣
@@Jonmad17 she is a woman of color. Not black but has black ethnicity.