Rita Moreno ‘Moved’ First Time She Saw Oscar Clip of Her Win

Prior to starlet Rita Moreno established foot on the Oscar phase Sunday evening she experienced a psychological wallop throughout wedding rehearsals. Prior to the starlet would certainly be brought onstage, along with 4 previous victors for Ideal Sustaining Starlet, clips of each participant’s previous win would quickly play.

For Moreno, seeing her 1962 Oscar win for the duty of Anita in “West Side Story” showcased on-stage “moved” her greatly. “I was very moved when we were in rehearsals and those big screens came down showing each of us holding the Oscar,” Moreno informed TheWrap. “I saw mine, which was a very long time [ago], in ’62. [I was] very young with dark hair. It was all very, very touching to me. It really brought it back with slam.”

The starlet existed to commemorate other Oscar candidate America Ferrera, herself chose for “Barbie.” Moreno claimed she would certainly wished that Ferrera would certainly win the honor, however no matter, claimed it was “a fabulous year for women and not women who were glamour pusses.”

When reviewing what she was mosting likely to claim to Ferrera, Moreno claimed she ‘d at first prepared to go bolder. “It was tempting to get tricky with it,” claimedMoreno “And I thought, ‘No, I’m gonna be very simple.’ The only thing I did was I said, ‘America’ — because that’s how the speech started — but I did it with a Puerto Rican accent.”

“What a wonderful concept,” claimed Moreno in relation to drawing out previous Oscar victors to present this year’s candidates. “I thought to that was so respectful.” Moreno did stress that, while she was shaking a Badgley Mischka outfit, she may need to contend along with the various other similarly luminescent starlets on-stage. “Being an actress I thought, ‘Who’s gown am I going to have to compete with on this stage?’ I imagined immediately Lupita [Nyong’o] because she’s always had the most beautiful gowns,” Moreno claimed.

Moreno is presently advertising her brand-new attribute “The Prank,” in which she plays a mean teacher with a dark trick.

“The Prank” remains in movie theaters March 15.