Rita Moreno.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Rita Morenois ready to let loose for a special occasion.
TheEGOT winner, who turns 92 on Dec. 11, tells PEOPLE she is considering having multiple birthday celebrations. But the festivities are not out of vanity — Moreno says her new home simply can’t hold the number of invitees she’d like to host.
“Here’s the problem now: I have a condo that I absolutely adore. It’s beautiful, but it won’t hold all of the people that I have for my birthday, because I always have fabulous birthdays,” says theWest Side Storyactress, who recently moved froma private home in California’s Berkeley Hillsarea to a condominium building.
“I said to my daughter, ‘What are we going to do? Because I definitely want to celebrate 92. My God, that’s pretty good!” adds Moreno, mom toFernanda Luisa Gordon, a jewelry designer. “I mean, celebrating 92 is a very big deal.”
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Rita Moreno and Fernanda Luisa Gordon.Presley Ann/WireImage
“The last one I had, there were 80 people in a very, very big house,” she continues. “It was a party house. It was huge.”
This year, “I’m thinking of possibly doing two birthday parties in the apartment,” she says. “I may have to have three birthday parties.”
Moreno is just as busy on the professional front as she is party-planning. Earlier this year, the80 for Bradystar filmed the new Netflix comedyFamily Switch, starringJennifer GarnerandEd Helms.
She says she was hooked after reading the screenplay. “My agent said, ‘I’m sending you a script.’ I said, ‘What is it about?’ He said, ‘Never mind.’ He said, ‘I want you to read it because it’s really fun and it’s a surprise.’ It was all of that and then some,” says Moreno.
Because Garner and Helms were the leads, Moreno didn’t have much of a chance to bond with them. “It was difficult to hang out,” she says. “They were lovely, wonderful people. He’s extremely funny. Everything that she seems to be, she is.”
Rita Moreno, Jennifer Garner, Emma Myers, Ed Helms and Brady Noon in ‘Family Switch’.Colleen Hayes/Netflix
Colleen Hayes/Netflix
Though Moreno had fun making the movie, she’s happy the premise is just a fantasy since she wouldn’t want to swap places with anyone.
“I think I’m swell,” she says when asked who she’d like to change bodies with. “I mean, I have plenty of faults that are maddening, and me being 92 makes me very maddening in many ways. I’ve gotten fussier and more insistent that I’m right, sometimes I am, and most times I’m not, that kind of stuff.”
“But I’m happy to be me. I don’t want to be anybody else,” she continues, “I mean, for one thing, it just makes no sense to me. I’m such a practical-minded person that I can’t even consider a question like that.”
Family Switchis on Netflix Thursday.
source: people.com
