Rita Moreno will not suffer mangled Spanish. The icon of stage and screen—a member of the legendary EGOT tribe—is taking her acting and producing role in the West Side Story remake very seriously, revealing in a recent SiriusXM interview that she read a rough draft of the script and found its Spanish to be “horrific.”

“I’ve only read a very, very rough [version] of the script,” Moreno began. “And it’s very rough, meaning tons of stuff is gonna be changed. For instance, [writer] Tony [Kushner] did the Spanish parts with his dictionary Spanish, which was horrific.”

Moreno added that her first call with director Steven Spielberg was tough because she wasn’t sure how to bring up the issue. “I didn’t know how to say that to Steven,” Moreno said. “Finally, in our conversation on the phone . . . I said, ‘Listen, Steven, I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but the Spanish in the script is not terrific.”

Spielberg, she said, immediately assured her not to worry about it. “He said, ‘Oh, no, no, no, that’s Tony Kushner using a Spanish dictionary,’” she said. “I was very nervous that Steven would think that that was the correct thing.”

Moreno, who won an Oscar for playing Anita in the original 1961 movie musical, is set this time around to play a new iteration of the character Doc, the drugstore owner who hires Tony (played by Ansel Elgort). “Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” Moreno said in a statement at the time of the casting announcement. “And to be asked by Steven Spielberg to participate is simply thrilling! Then to work together with the brilliant playwright Tony Kushner—what a glorious stew! I am tingling!”

Moreno is also an executive producer on the remake, giving her some extra weight when it comes to calling out any and all bad Spanish. Not on her watch!

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