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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 11:22:00

And he criticised the bma for his response when he said the nhs needed reform. he said they were treating him like a heretic. now it s time to turn to our 100 women series and meet the oscar winning actress reeta moreno. perhaps best known for the role of anita in the 1961 film west side story but now, at the age of 90, she s speaking out about racial stereotyping and representation in films and on tv. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal went to meet her. when i could understand what movies were, i wanted to be a movie star. that was the word, not an actress but a movie star. and i still hear that among very young people and i said to them, oh, let me tell you a few things. you went to hollywood during the golden age of cinema. and you were bigger than life. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 11:01:00

Oscar winning actor reeta moreno has been speaking to bbc 100 women about racial stereotyping and representation in films and tv. and aiming high, ajapanese company hopes to become the first private operator to land a vehicle on the moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin with a world first a teenage girl s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body using a revolutionary new type of medicine. all other treatments for alyssa s leukaemia had failed. the ground breaking treatment is known as base editing it involves making genetic changes to donor cells, enabling them to attack her cancer. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 11:24:00

Worried me because i was one of those kids that was just afraid to say no to anything. i m sure you ve lost count of some of the racist encounters that you had in the industry, notjust being stereotyped, being puerto rican. tell me what that was like. i was always an island girl. and it seemed just fine at first and then it began to occur to me that that would limit me quite a bit because normally, those kinds of people have accents and almost always the makeup was dark and that went all the way up to west side story. any actress that plays anita is compared to you, how do you feel about that? i can t tell you how i feel about that. i suppose it is inevitable. i did win some wonderful awards, i won the oscar, of course. ....

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