Rita Moreno Defends Actors’ Right To Get Political: ‘Freedom Of Speech Belongs To All Of Us’
etcanada.comRita Moreno appeared at Saturday Night’s PGA Awards, accepting the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America.
Accepting the award from presenter Jessica Chastain, the legendary EGOT winner made quite the entrance as danced her way to the podium, with Chastain joining in.
In her acceptance speech, the 90-year-old Hollywood icon recounted her decades of social activism. “I am not a person of religious faith, but for me, film has often been a sacred text that has spurred me to follow what [Abraham Lincoln] called the ‘better angels of our nature,’” Moreno told the crowd at the event, held at Los Angeles’ Fairmont Century Plaza. “In 1963, I sat on Abraham Lincoln’s steps, only a few feet from [Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.]. I was there… Thanks to an invitation from Harry Belafonte, I was there to hear the preacher’s dream.
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