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Rita Moreno Jokingly Calls Jason Momoa the "World's Tallest Person"
Rita Moreno wants to cognize what the upwind is similar up determination for Jason Momoa.
The West Side Story histrion precocious shared her acquisition filming Fast X, the 10th installment successful the Fast and Furious franchise, wherever she literally couldn't see eye-to-eye with her co-star.
"Jason Momoa is the world's tallest person," Rita exclusively told E! News astatine the Time Women of the Year Gala connected March 8. "When I met him portion I was determination doing the movie successful England, I was really talking to his belt. That antheral is truthful damn tall, literally. I mean he's similar mode up present and you're benignant of looking astatine his loop and past go, 'Hey, it's me, Rita.'"
Even if tallness region makes it hard for Rita to person a face-to-face conversation, astatine slightest exertion helps span the divide. As she explained, "I'm a substance buddy of Ludacris and a mates of different radical that I deliberation is surprising."
The connections besides proceed onscreen successful Fast X, wherever the Oscar victor plays the grandma of fan-favorite Dominic "Dom" Toretto, played by Vin Diesel.
"Can you judge it? I'm his grammy," she gushed. "I'm Vin's Grammy."
Vin similarly praised Rita successful a February interrogation with E! News, calling moving alongside the icon "another imagination travel true."
"I grew up successful New York, truthful West Side Story was close up the artifact from me, and she was successful Nuyorican, and that's precise adjacent to home," helium shared. "So the information that she was capable to embody my abuela, this archetype that is truthful prevalent successful each families, it was magical."
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The star-studded enactment movie besides features Nathalie Emmanuel, John Cena, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron and more.
Fast X is retired successful theaters connected May 19.
(E! and Universal Pictures are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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