Moreno credits therapy with helping her overcome these regrets and demons and press on. “The thought of making her do without her daddy was anathema to me,” she says. Their child, Fernanda Gordon Fischer, also contributed to her decision to stay. I just didn’t feel capable of handling that,” she says. I come from an era where the man knows everything and you have to listen to the man and all that stuff. “I come from an era where you didn’t do that. “I’m not a person who leaves people,” Moreno tells me. She connects Rosita’s trauma to the pain she felt in her marriage to cardiologist Leonard Gordon, whom she stayed with until his death in 2010, revealing in the documentary that the marriage had soured over time. She has an abortion at the behest of her long time, on-and-off again lover Marlon Brando, and survives rape at the hands of her agent, whom she continued to work with after the fact. Professionally, she confronts the racism and misogyny of Hollywood, toiling away in underwritten and offensive bit parts and going long stretches without work despite critical acclaim. Over the course of the doc, we watch as Moreno leaves Puerto Rico with her mother for New York City-never to see her younger brother again-and, seemingly against all odds, make it big in Hollywood, earning the coveted EGOT status by winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in competitive competition, and becoming a living legend in the process. By Wednesday evening, Moreno had issued an apology on Twitter saying she was “incredibly disappointed” in herself for her comments.Īfter watching Moreno’s documentary, Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, which premieres on June 18, it’s clear that Moreno has faced worse over the course of her 89 years than an angry Twitter mob. “I’m simply saying, can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone?” Moreno said, regarding the discourse surrounding representation in In The Heights.
On Wednesday, she trended on Twitter for comments she made on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert regarding criticism of the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights for its lack of Afro-Latino and darker-skinned characters in central roles. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.