Rita Moreno has slammed critics of her provocative style.
Rita Moreno
The 89-year-old actress revealed she hated the sex symbol status she received in the 50s and has now claimed her tight dresses and makeup should never have warranted the unwanted attention she endured.
She told Yahoo News: “I would dress up in a very, very provocative way. I always wore tight, tight little dresses with my cute little bum. Too much makeup, usually. And the earrings and stuff.
“As the #MeToo movement would say right now: ‘Well, f*** them! You can dress any damn way you please. You can wear as many loop earrings, and as low-cut a neck as you want, and that’s also true.”
However, the ‘West Side Story’ star didn’t think to stand up for herself at the time as she believed that was how successful actresses were perceived.
She added: “The truth is, it never occurred to me not to withstand it. I figured, and I was right, that that was how Hollywood was run and how it functioned. And I just went with the flow, as they say, not happily.”
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