I wish Rita Moreno the best. She is 90 years old, and still very active, but in my opinion, Rita did not need to be in this and her inclusion may have dampened a greater sense of ‘newness’ about this version. Over the summer, I heard more about Rita having a part in this than learning about some of the newer actors.
She’s a rabid liberal loon. In a conversation about Trump when she was on Kimmel’s moronic show, she gave him the finger on tv but said he had no class for supposedly telling her the prices of things in his penthouse apartment at a cocktail party (for Gov. Cuomo) once. She also said she was voting for Biden. She’s the typical nutjob liberal, i.e. Trump’s a racist, worse than any horror in history, etc., etc.
Needless to say but I will, I hope the movie continues to bomb!
I can think of a hundred movies from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.....that we don’t need to remake. Fistful of Dollars doesn’t need to be remade. The Odd Couple doesn’t need to be remade. Funny Girl and Whats Up Doc don’t need a remake.
I have not been to the movies in almost 20 years- Hollywood will not get $0.01 of my money if i can help it. I was considering breaking that streak to see WSS- loved the original.
Then i stumbled upon a 60 minute preview show about the movie last week- all woke/BLM BS. How Rita Moreno was discriminated against all the time as a young actor, how they would only hire Puerto Ricans to play certain roles in the movie (despite the fact they allow blacks to play roles such as Ariel in the live version of the Little Mermaid), blah-blah-blah.
Finally they had that race predator sunny hostin talking crap and i said, “fuhgetaboutit- not going to see it.”