Rita Moreno is opening up about how her nearly eight-year relationship with Marlon Brando turned toxic. The 90-year-old "West Side Story" actress and the late actor reportedly met in 1954 on the set of "Désirée." She was 22 years old. "Ultimately, it was exciting to be with Marlon.
Oh, my God, it was exciting. He was extraordinary in many, many ways, but he was a bad guy. He was a bad guy when it came to women.
I was such a different person then. I had all the makings of a doormat," Moreno said, speaking to Jessica Chastain for Variety’s "Actors on Actors" virtual chat.
Moreno said during their relationship, she'd catch Brando in lies. Actress Rita Moreno arrives at screening of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story at The Castro Theatre on December 12, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Miikka Skaffari) "So whenever he lied, I would look at him and I’d say, ‘Marlon, look at me.’ And he’d start to grin this kind of — I don’t want to use the bad word — that poop-eating grin.
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