“I got scared…
It’s one thing to be doing take after take until you get it right.
At that point, I’d been in movies just long enough to get used to that.
Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno in ‘West Side Story’.Courtesy Everett Collection
The revelation surprised even her costar and longtime friendGeorge Chakiris.
But she confessed she found costar Natalie Wood lacking, precisely because she was not a woman of color.
“I think a great deal had to do with the fact that she was not Puerto Rican.
I found her wanting in terms of her interest in getting it as right as she could.”
“You’re in for some surprises,” Moreno teased.
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