![]() ![]() Can't you just wait a while and leave it alone?" she said. While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Moreno, who's Puerto Rican, commented on the criticism aimed at Miranda. What did Rita Moreno say about the In the Heights pushback? In the end, when we were looking at the cast, we tried to get the people who were best for those roles." ![]() Chu (who directed the In the Heights adaptation, as well as Crazy Rich Asians) responded to a question on the lack of Black Latino representation in In the Heights by saying, "That was something we talked about and I needed to be educated about. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. ![]() Miranda responded to the criticism on Monday, posting an apology to Twitter: "I'm seeing the discussion around Afro-Latino representation in our film this weekend and it is clear that many in our dark-skinned Afro-Latino community don't feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the lead roles. What did Lin-Manuel Miranda say about the colorism accusations? "I think the colorism critique of in the heights is definitely a valid discussion but also I feel like there's this tendency to hyper-criticize creators of color while letting white people get away with the same old racist shit they've always been doing," one tweet reads. ![]()
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