Ariana DeBose On Her SAG Nom For Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’: “This Nomination Is Not Just For My Work, But For Who I am”
13.01.2022 - 04:55
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Rita Moreno is the first Latinx actress to win an Oscar. It was her performance in Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 1961 film of West Side Story as Anita that garnered her the win. Since Moreno’s historic win, there has only been nine Latina actresses nominated for an Academy Award, and Ariana DeBose may just be the tenth–and a shoe in to win.
DeBose was nominated for a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a supporting actress, and she manifested this moment. “It’s not that you don’t believe something different could happen for you, but you put it out in the world, and then a great opportunity comes”
It’s been a long road for DeBose who started as a dancer, but wanted to be the best at being a singer and an actress. That hard work and perseverance is how the actress ended up here. “I changed my goal and I said, I would like to make movies on a large scale. I want to be considered an actor,” DeBose said. “I started out as a dancer and then I began to sing and it took me a while to be comfortable calling myself a singer. Soon I changed my focus again to acting and here I am.”
Becoming an actress is one thing, becoming an actress who stars in a film by legendary director Stephen Spielberg is a whole different level of success DeBose didn’t anticipate. “Some days I had to pinch myself, but it’s the hardest I’ve ever worked on a project. Steven Spielberg sets are huge. We all were so excited to come to work and make this work with Steven. He treated us like collaborators. “
As DeBose said, sets are its own ecosystem because of their vastness, which is in stark contrast to the actress’s theater background. “Film is a lot of hurry-up and wait, which is still a fascinating experience. In the theater, you put on your costume, go
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