{"id":108613,"date":"2003-05-30T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T12:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108613"},"modified":"2015-10-18T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:49:00","slug":"chita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108613","title":{"rendered":"Chita!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I suddenly got this picture. Antonio, he’s going on an adventure. It’s like not wanting to miss a good party. I saw Antonio like this golden bird climbing into the sky with all this power and all this energy coming from the tail feathers. And I was on the back, hanging on. I was on it for the ride. And the deeper I got into it, the more I realized I was supposed to be there. It was almost not for me. It wasn’t like I was on this trip for me. I feel Antonio so strongly, and I really want him to get everything that he deserves because he really deserves it. It’s a spiritual thing.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I pulled that Chita Rivera quote from this pre-review of the Nine<\/em> revival. But once I read the whole thing, my overwhelming response is: Best interview ever. Really incoherent quotes. <\/p>\n

Choice quotes: <\/p>\n

“In the States we choose to do things because they bring us to prominence. In London, for instance, you go back and forth from being a spear carrier to being Hamlet. What you learn is the value of the piece. And I think it really minimizes ego.” — Laura Benanti <\/p>\n

“I literally counted my lines and went, `No’…I finally just went, `Too small for who?’ Not too small for me. Too small for Julia Roberts? Yes. And then they said Chita Rivera, and I was like, `Sure.'” — Laura Benanti <\/p>\n

“You’re very much a huge part of what you give yourself to.” — Chita Rivera <\/p>\n

“I’ve never in my life felt like I’m a beautiful girl; I’ve never held that with me. And this has taught me to at least carry myself as if I am, even if I don’t feel it in my heart.” — Laura Benanti The woman should be stopped from giving interviews forevermore, frankly <\/p>\n

“I have a code: of our world and not of our world. And these women were of our world.” — David Leveaux (the director….That quote made me think of my OWN personal code: Of a pretentious nature and NOT of a pretentious nature … every person in this article except for Banderas sounds “of a pretentious nature” – Also, every quote from the director made me wonder: Hmm. Wonder if this one’s gonna bomb…sounds that way to me) <\/p>\n

Antonio Banderas saves the day at the end of the article, with some coherent and charming quotes, about what it is like to be surrounded by women at all times. <\/p>\n

“When I was sick, I got seven chicken soups in one afternoon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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