The function of Tony’s kind, worried employer at the soda store has actually been handed down to Doc’s widow, Valentina, who’s seen excessive to be totally positive about her young staff member’s long-lasting possibilities for joy with Maria.
“No. 1, it’s a beautiful name,” Moreno, who’s likewise an executive manufacturer on the movie, informed Parade of her brand-new West Side Story character. “No 2, she has a close relationship with Tony, the lead. It’s extremely, extremely various than the relationship that Doc had with the kids. And there is one significant surprise with Valentina that obviously I’m not going to disclose, however it’s a doozy. Valentina is a terrific character, she’s caring, she’s warm. She’s absolutely nothing like Anita at all. She is certainly an older female. And it’s been the happiness of my life to play her. I might not think it when Steven called me, and after that I spoke to TonyKushner Apparently, Tony was a huge fan of the [original] motion picture and recommended me to Steven.”
But she wasn’t thinking about simply a wink-wink cameo. “Playing a cameo when you’ve been a lead is just a distraction,” she discussed. “All you’re doing is disruptive individuals. Oh, appearance who exists? [Spielberg] stated, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, it’s not a cameo. It’s a genuine part.’ I stated, ‘OK, then I want to check out the script.’ And that’s how it occurred. But I can inform you, returning to the past in today– it’s unbelievable.”
Glass, who passed away in 1984, was a respected character star whose very first part was an uncredited function in the 1937 screwball funny TrueConfession Later television tasks consisted of Barney Miller and Cagney & & Lacey
