West Side Story: Rita Moreno & Ariana DeBose Talk About Attempted Sexual Assault Scene From The Musical

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oi-Sanyukta Thakare

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Published: Monday, December 13, 2021, 13:46 [IST]

West
Side
Story
actresses
Rita
Moreno
and
Ariana
DeBose
have
opened
up
about
the
sexual
assault
scene
from
the
film.
Notably,
Rita
and
Ariana
both
have
played
the
role
of
Anita
in
the
1961
and
2021
releases
respectively.
Talking
about
the
scenes
both
shared
their
relations
with
Entertainment
Weekly.

West
Side
Story
Movie
Review:
Steven
Spielberg’s
First
Musical
Is
A
Spectacular
Revival
With
A
Few
Missteps

Moreno
said
the
scene
felt “unnatural” to
her
as
she
had
to
go
from
playing
Anita
to
being
Valentina
in
the
2021
film. “In
that
scene,
I
suddenly
become
Doc.
I
never
could
really
get
inside
of
the
scene.
I
was
never
able
to
really
nail
it
because
every
time
I
looked
it
wasn’t
me
[on
the
ground].
It
was
a
difficult
experience
for
me,
doing
it
again
in
a
very
different
role,”
Moreno
told
the
portal.

Meanwhile,
DeBose
whose
portrayal
as
Anita
in
the
new
movie
is
being
lauded
on
social
media,
said
that
the
experience
was “very
meta.” Talking
about
how
she
felt
having
old
(Rita
Moreno)
trying
to
save
her,
DeBose
said, “It’s
like, ‘Oh
my
God,
that’s
me;
that’s
not
me.'”

She
added
that
Rita’s
portrayal
of
Anita
in
the
1961
release
made
her
conscious. “Because
it’s
a
hard
job
when
you
are
stepping
into
something
that
has
been
portrayed
so
brilliantly,
and
they’re
right
there.
I
just
played
the
truth.
That’s
all
you
really
can
do
in
those
moments
and
react
to
what
is
there
in
the
space,”
DeBose
added.

After
Eternals,
West
Side
Story
Banned
From
Saudi
Arabia,
UAE
&
Other
Middle
East
Regions

West
Side
Story
directed
by
Steven
Spielberg,
marked
his
first
musical.
The
film
released
on
December
10,
2021,
starred
Ansel
Elgort
as
Tony,
Rachel
Zegler
as
Maria,
Ariana
DeBose
as
Anita,
Rita
Moreno
as
Valentina
and
Mike
Faist
as
Riff.

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