In an interview on "Variety", the iconic actress has confessed how her relationship with the interpreter was: "he was a bad man"
Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno, known for her roles in films such as "West side story" (1961), "Singing in the rain" (1952) or "El rey y yo" (1956), has given an interview to "Variety" in which he has not hesitated when coming clean. The iconic interpreter has confessed that Marlon Brando, with whom she had a relationship of nearly eight years, was a "bad man when it came to women", assuring that he "mistreated her in many ways".
“It was very exciting to be with Marlon,” said Moreno, “he was extraordinary in many, many ways, but he was a bad man. He was a bad man when it came to women, ”said the Puerto Rican, who began her relationship with the actor in 1954 when she was 22 years old, during the filming of the movie“ Desirée ”. "I was very different then. It had all the hallmarks of a doormat,” Ella Moreno explained.
Moreno explains to what extent Brando was a womanizer, and that despite the fact that he secretly wanted to be, he ended up confessing everything to his then partner: "Every time he lied to me, I looked at him and said: 'Marlon, look at me.' And he began to outline, I don't want to use the bad word, that smile ”, recalls the interpreter. “I could read it like a book. That's why he loved me and mistreated me in so many ways.
The "West Side Story" star, winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, two Emmys and a Tony, stated that at that time "she did not understand" that suicide would not only "kill the pathetic, sad and downtrodden Rita, but also to the rest” of her person, says the interpreter. “I tried to end my life with pills at his house. That's how I tried to do it."
Likewise, Moreno explains in the interview that Brando wanted to start a relationship with her again in 1969, when they both starred in the movie “The night of the following day”: “I was married at that time, I had a wonderful daughter, Fernanda. But he wanted to try again. I don't, but he does, ”said the actress, who pointed out that by then Brando had lost a good part of who he was,“ the good Marlon that Rita loved ”.
With this, it is not the first time that the Puerto Rican has talked about her relationship with the Hollywood star, because in an interview she gave to the BBC in 2013, she also recalled that “my relationship with Marlon was like a storm. It was sensual and divine and entertaining, but more of an obsession, it was like cocaine."
