Everybody said, “You know what? You really need to leave the studio.” And then everybody said, “Well I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.” Ha! My manager, who’s also my dear friend, he said, “Don’t count on it. One Day at a Time had to halt production last March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Oh, I think it has everything to do with genes. To what do you attribute your great health and vigor? Why not? Nobody thinks of that ever ever. If you’re a wonderful actor, you should be able to play almost any part. One of the problems is older actors are not considered for regular roles. You must take some solace that there are more roles for older actors and actresses now. It’s not like people are beating my door down… It does until I’m out of work, and then I say, “How come I’m not working?” It must give you great satisfaction to see all those trophies, representing such wonderful work. “The PEGOT? No, I don’t think so.” There’s no special EGOT trophy case either. There’s no acronym for that yet, she adds. She’s one of the few artists who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony - the covetted “EGOT” quadruple-play. She had a small part in the classic Hollywood movie musical “Singing in the Rain” and became a sensation in 1961 as Anita when she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the ground-breaking musical “West Side Story.” Her television credits date back before the true dawn of regularly-scheduled network television. She made her Broadway debut while barely in her teens. Has Moreno been rooting for Machado on Dancing with the Stars?īorn in Puerto Rico, Moreno was also clearly blessed with big ovaries along with plenty of talent. Justina Machado - currently seen weekly as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars - plays One Day at a Time‘s lead character, single mom and army vet Penelope Alvarez. She plays the grandmother in the three-generation household. “We’re the little train that could like a cat with nine lives,” says Moreno. The sitcom, which was based on the Norman Lear original which ran from 1975 to 1984, was revived first by Netflix before being cancelled after three seasons - then quickly scooped up - by Pop TV in the States and now Global in Canada. Viewers will get to see more of Moreno starting Thanksgiving Monday as Global premieres new, back-to-back episodes from the truncated fourth season. I just love playing her,” says Moreno on the phone from her home in Berkeley, Calif. Then she bursts through like she’s about to take a bow at Radio City Music Hall. Lydia, a retired singer-dancer, likes to dramatically part the curtain that separates the kitchen from the living room in her extended family’s crowded Cuban-American house. If you’ve seen Rita Moreno as Lydia Riera on One Day at a Time, you know the lady knows how to make an entrance. Moreno (centre, clutching Norman Lear) and the cast of One Day at a Time
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