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Rita Moreno shares her excitement to be back at the Oscars with THR, reminds everyone that anything can happen at the award show and more.

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00:00 How does it feel to return to the Oscars?

00:02 Oh fabulous! It's always great. You never know what's going to happen.

00:06 I mean a couple of years ago we were here and somebody slapped somebody.

00:10 So it was fascinating. Oh you look surprised, you don't remember?

00:14 I do remember, but you just reminded me.

00:17 You never know what's going to happen. Not only that, I just love seeing all these celebrities.

00:23 I don't know most of them. Well you know we don't.

00:27 People assume that we're all friends and all that. We're not. We don't know each other.

00:32 So if that happens and there's someone I love, I go over and introduce myself.

00:39 I just got to meet that person.

00:42 And you know I'm always kind of a little surprised when they say, "Yes I know who you are."

00:47 And I think, "Wow."

00:49 Have you done that to anyone here yet tonight?

00:51 No, I've been too busy doing this tonight.

00:54 But you can imagine that I will be.

00:57 Once we're in the audience when they're doing a commercial,

01:00 if I see someone I just love, I'm not above going over and introducing myself.

01:06 And you have a new film coming out. What can you tell me about it?

01:09 It's called The Prank, P-R-A-N-K.

01:12 And it's about the world's meanest woman.

01:16 She's a snake. No joke. It's really a cult movie.

01:20 And I play this woman who is as mean as a snake.

01:24 Fernanda will tell you.

01:26 She's the high school teacher, literally, that everyone loves to hate

01:29 and is scared to death of and fails everybody.

01:32 Yes, she's the kind of teacher who when one person makes a mistake in class,

01:38 the entire class has to pay for it.

01:40 She's awful. I love doing it.

01:44 That's amazing. And you're no stranger to the Oscars.

01:47 Where do you keep your Oscar?

01:49 It's in my den. Not the living room. The den.

01:54 Did you keep the envelope as well?

01:57 No. Oh, boy. I wish I had known then.

02:00 Who thinks? I mean, I really had no idea I was going to win.

02:04 None. None. None.

02:06 What's one memory you have from that night?

02:09 Well, a funny story. Joan Crawford was the co-hostess.

02:14 And she was married at the time to a man who was Mr. Pepsi Cola.

02:20 So she had a Pepsi cooler in her dressing room just offstage.

02:25 And in the cooler was also some vodka.

02:28 And she was feeling no pain. Let's just put it that way.

02:32 And I got off the stage and I started to cry.

02:35 And she started to hug me and wouldn't let me go

02:38 because there was a photographer there.

02:41 And she wouldn't let me go. She wouldn't let me go.

02:43 And literally they had to pull me away from her

02:47 because this was her one opportunity to be with a winner.

02:51 Yeah. Very odd.

02:54 That's a wild story.

02:55 For you, what is it like being here with your mom tonight on a night like this?

02:59 It's absolutely thrilling. And I'm just so happy for her.

03:03 Like, her career is a juggernaut at 92.

03:07 I mean, and here she is. And here we are.

03:10 And I'm very pleased, honored. Yeah.

03:12 And look what I made.

03:15 I had a little help. I had a little help.

03:18 But look, isn't this--

03:20 She's my date everywhere at all these big events.

03:23 Now that I'm widowed, Fernanda is my date almost always.

03:27 I love that so much.

03:28 And one last question. You're presenting tonight.

03:30 Can you share who you're presenting?

03:32 No.

03:34 Well, we can't wait to see.

03:35 How's that?

03:37 I'm not allowed to.

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