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He hauled off and cracked me across the face, and I understood what people meant when they said, “I saw stars.” I really saw sparkling things in front of my eyes. And it was a very emotional scene anyway to start, and I saw his hairline go back about two inches. Let’s practice a little bit.” And I kind of slapped him, and he said, “Okay, but don’t do any less than that.” But what happened is when that moment came for me to slap him, I hauled off and slapped him. Anyway, so Marlon said, “You can’t fake it. She really had to make me so angry because I had a hard time doing it. I mean, I had a hard time slapping Faye Dunaway once when she was playing a version of Evita for a television series. I am really very, very bad with striking people, acting or not. On the whole it was not, but then it came to this particular scene where I had to slap him. Your performance in that film is phenomenal and quite disturbing. I recently watched the film you and Brando did together years after your breakup, The Night of the Following Day. It’s probably the greatest favor I ever did for myself. And at one point he said to me, “You need help,” which now makes me really laugh hard because it’s one loony telling the other loony that they need help! It turned out he was absolutely right. We had this almost eight-year relationship. You talk a lot about the importance of therapy in the documentary. (She was only the third person to have done it at the time.) We talked recently about West Side Story (both film versions), One Day at a Time, and her relationships with fellow actors Marlon Brando and James Garner. “But I wanted to reveal something very different in terms of my success and the struggles.” And Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It is a moving exploration of her turbulent, up-and-down career, which saw her going from being cast in a variety of “exotic” parts in genre pictures, to winning an Oscar for 1961’s West Side Story, to achieving the rare distinction of the EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. What was left to say? “Here’s a woman who ostensibly is quite successful and has beaten some odds, it seems,” Moreno, 89, reflects. The legendary actress, born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, had already written a memoir, and performed a solo show about her remarkable life and career, both back in 2011.

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Really, really complicated.Believe it or not, it took Rita Moreno a full year to agree to appear in a documentary about herself. The good part of him, the good Marlon that Rita loved. When Brando wanted to get back together with her in 1969, Moreno said, “I didn’t want that. Moreno said the relationship was so bad that at one point she “tried to end her life with pills in his house.” “I could read him like a book and that’s why he loved me, and that’s why he mistreated me in so many ways,” she added. She continued, “He was a bad guy when it came to women. He was extraordinary in many, many ways, but he was a bad guy.” “Ultimately, it was exciting to be with Marlon,” Moreno told Jessica Chastain. The EGOT winner, now 90, met Brando when she was just 22 on the set of Désirée in 1954. One Day at a Time actress Rita Moreno revealed the dark side of her eight-year relationship with Godfather actor Marlon Brando on a recent Variety‘s Actors on Actors chat.