Before you comment “Penelope Cruz is white” ...please actually watch the video. This is literally a point I make. The intro simply refers to her as Hispanic, which is not a race.

I’m still gagged that Rita Moreno wore that same dress she won her Oscar in to the Oscars a couple years ago. True icon and legend

there's just something darkly funny about a white guy asking the woman he's putting in brown face if she's racist completely unironically when she complains about it, you almost expect it to be a joke but it isn't.

I’m half-Cuban, half-Dominican, and my skin color can best be described as “Featured extra in Tim Burton film.”

Do we all remember when Lea Michele got mad when she wasn’t cast as a latina in the new West Side Story despite she said she has learned spanish?

Have to say Rita Moreno's Oscar dress was designed by a man of color. Very appropriate. It was designed by another Moreno and a Filipino at the same time, the great Pitoy Moreno.

Correction: Rita Moreno didn't immigrate, as a Puerto Rican she's American. She just moved to the main land.

Rita Moreno is a legend, and her approach reminds me of the late Cicely Tyson, who would only take roles she felt represented the strength of Black women, and whom always had something to say about opportunities for Black women. I wish the othering of Black, Brown, and Indigenous women would stop in every industry and everywhere. Rita Moreno's story is motivation enough to fight back.

The media representation of latin-Americans in Hollywood is largely one of the major reasons why some people don’t think black/indigenous/mixed race Latin Americans don’t exist despite the fact they make up the largest population in their community, it’s always white passing, mestizo or racially ambiguous

As a dark-skinned puertorrican, I kept going “YES, YES” throughout this whole video. Rita Moreno is an absolute icon and we regard her as such! Thanks for making this video and explaining these things in a cohesive manner for those who might not be as aware of these issues!

After her oscar-nomination, many brazilian reporters asked Fernanda Montenegro if (or when) she was going to work in Hollywood. Her answer is significative: "no, because in Brazil I have a career, in the US I have an accent. They want me as mexican, reading the stars in a pueblo. I'm not that".

Moreno can do anything: comedy—The Nanny, musicals—West Side Story, gritty drama—OZ. She’s amazing.

Rita Hayworth's transformation always makes me laugh. they basically turned a white girl into a white girl. just redhead. a reverse Ariana Grande experience.

"I'm half Brazilian and my skin color is somewhere between Cullen and transparent."

I'm Argentinian and whiter than my American boyfriend. The struggle.

Rita Moreno is a treasure and should be protected at all cost!

Can't wait for your Oscar so white video about South Asian actresses. Finally Merle Oberon gets her due! She's tragically underrated!

Rita Moreno is not only an EGOT she’s also a Triple Crown. She and Helen Hayes are the only two thespians to hold both distinctions.

To clarify because someone replied but deleted the comment (no shade just the truth): in order to be a Triple Crown you must win an Emmy, Oscar, and Tony in the acting categories and in order to be an EGOT you must win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony regardless of what category each is in. Rita Moreno and Helen Hayes both won their Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys in acting categories and each also received a Grammy. Someone like Whoopi Goldberg is an EGOT but not a Triple Crown because only her Oscar is for acting, her Emmys are for producing and hosting and her Tony is for producing.

Seeing the case of the Latina in the video in the esrly days of cinema that played many ethnicities, remembered an interview with Brazilian legendary actress Fernanda Montenegro, after her Oscar nomination she was approached with numerous roles to portray Latinas of different countries and people with middle eastern/Arabian heritage, and it's that this happens to this day, and this fact stopped Fernanda to further her career in the US because she refused to play this roles because of that and for not being of the ethnicity/race/heritage that was written in the roles

American born Latina here. On dating apps I’ll get messages like “do you have a sexy accent?” It’s disgusting.

I don’t even have anything in my profile about my background. They’re just judging by appearance.

Rita’s life is extremely sad and fascinating. So glad to see her story here!