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

00:02Oh, fabulous. It's always great.

00:04You never know what's going to happen.

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

00:09So it was fascinating.

00:11Oh, you look surprised. You don't remember?

00:13I do remember, but you just reminded me.

00:16You never know what's going to happen.

00:19Not only that, I just love seeing all these celebrities.

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

00:26Well, you know, we don't.

00:27People assume that we're all friends and all that.

00:30We're not. We don't know each other.

00:32So, you know, if that happens and there's someone I love,

00:35I go over and introduce myself.

00:39I mean, I just got to meet that person.

00:42And, you know, I'm always kind of a little surprised when they,

00:45yes, I know who you are.

00:46And I think, wow.

00:48Have you done that to anyone here yet tonight?

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

00:53But you can imagine that I will be.

00:56You know, once we're in the audience when they're doing a commercial,

00:59if I see someone I just love, I'm not above going over and introducing myself.

01:06And you have a new film coming out.

01:07What can you tell me about it?

01:08It's called The Prank, P-R-A-N-K.

01:11And it's about the world's meanest woman.

01:15She's a snake.

01:16No joke.

01:17No joke.

01:18It's really, it's a cult movie.

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

01:24Fernanda will tell you.

01:25She's the high school teacher, literally, that everyone loves to hate

01:28and is scared to death of and fails everybody.

01:31Yes, she's the kind of, exactly, she's the kind of teacher who,

01:35when one person makes a mistake in class, the entire class has to pay for it.

01:40She's awful.

01:42I love doing it.

01:44That's amazing.

01:45And you're no stranger to the Oscars.

01:46Where do you keep your Oscar?

01:48It's in my den.

01:52Not the living room.

01:53The den.

01:54Did you keep the envelope as well?

01:57No.

01:57Oh, boy.

01:58I wish I had known then.

01:59Who thinks?

02:01I mean, I really had no idea I was going to win.

02:03None.

02:04None.

02:05None.

02:05What's one memory you have from that night?

02:09Well, a funny story.

02:10Joan Crawford was the co-hostess.

02:13And she was married at the time to a man who was Mr. Pepsi Cola.

02:19So she had a Pepsi cooler in her dressing room just off stage.

02:24And in the cooler was also some vodka.

02:27And she was feeling no pain.

02:29Let's just put it that way.

02:31And I got off the stage and I started to cry.

02:35And she started to hug me and wouldn't let me go because there was a photographer there.

02:40And she wouldn't let me go.

02:41She wouldn't let me go.

02:43And literally they had to pull me away from her because this was her one opportunity to be with a winner.

02:51Yeah.

02:52Very odd.

02:53That's a wild story.

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

02:58It's absolutely thrilling.

03:01And I'm just so happy for her.

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

03:07I mean, and here she is.

03:08And here we are.

03:09And I'm very pleased, honored.

03:11Yeah.

03:12And look what I made.

03:14I had a little help.

03:16I had a little help.

03:18But look, isn't this.

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

03:22Now that I'm widowed, Fernanda is my date almost always.

03:27I love that so much.

03:28And one last question.

03:29You're presenting tonight.

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

03:31No.

03:32America.

03:33We can't wait to see.

03:35How's that?

03:36I'm not allowed to.

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