Brando better lover than Presley
Rita Moreno has made no secret of the fact that Marlon Brando was the “lust” of her life. In 2017, she revealed that a blackand-white photo of the actor in his 1950s prime is displayed in her bedroom in her Berkeley home, a memento of their torrid eight-year affair that she says almost killed her.
Now, the 86-year-old confirms what should be self-evident: With great lust comes great sex. In an interview on “The Wendy Williams Show” Thursday, Moreno recalled how wonderful the Academy Award-winning iconoclast was in bed. It turns out that Brando brought some of his qualities as an actor — firing up American screens in the 1950s with his tight Stanley Kowalski T-shirts and his emotionally raw style of acting — into the bedroom.
“(Brando) slayed me good ’cause he was the king of everything. Eeeeverything,” Moreno told Williams.
The actress, who won an Academy Award for “West Side Story,” and Brando met on the set of the 1954 Napoleon biopic “Désirée.”
Moreno told Williams that Brando broke her heart many times during their eight years together. For one thing, he wouldn’t marry her, as she wanted.
For another, he kept sleeping with other people — both women and men, as recent reports have indicated.
“One time when I found some lingerie that was not mine, I just went home devastated, weeping and crying — and something wonderful happened the next day,” she told Williams. That wonderful thing was meeting Elvis Presley.
Moreno said the King of Rock and Roll had spotted her, “liked what he saw” and asked for a meeting. Moreno, still hurting from Brando’s latest infidelity, accepted the invitation. She ended up having a fling with Presley, which drove Brando crazy, Moreno said.
But alas, sex with Presley wasn’t so great, at least not compared with Brando, Moreno told Williams. She said Presley’s lovemaking skills were pretty unsophisticated.