Rita Moreno used her ‘awful’ experiences with women as inspiration for new film

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Rita Moreno is looking back at her life to draw inspiration in her new film. This week, Moreno was featured on “The View,” where she discussed her film “The Prank.” In it, she plays a mean teacher, and explained how she was inspired to create the role by some of her personal memories and experiences with women in show business.

Rita Moreno celebrated her 92nd birthday by singing while standing on top of a chairRita Moreno, Bad Bunny, and more stars added to the Oscars presenter listMoreno shared that her role is one of the best she’s had in years. “I mean, isn’t she the meanest bitch ever?” she asked the women in the show, prompting laughs from all over the studio.

Moreno shared that, at first, she didn’t know how to play an “awful” person. After finding the key to her character, she revealed that she had a great amount of fun playing bad. "I just thought, how am I going to play this terrible person?

And I thought of all the women in my life — particularly in show business — who'd really been awful to me," she said. "I said to myself, I thought, 'I'm going to use all of the things that they did with me and my little Puerto Rican past,' and that's what I do.