Moreno is currently starring in Lifetime’s “Santa Bootcamp,” a festive comedy directed byMelissa Joan Hart.

“We had to suffer with that in the original movie,” Moreno tells The List.

“All of us had one color makeup.”

Rita Moreno in gold earrings

She continues, “I said [to the makeup artist], ‘I hate this makeup.

It’s too dark.

I don’t know why I have to be this shade.’

Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno in West Side Story

He actually said, ‘What are you racist?’

That made me speechless because he didn’t understand that Puerto Ricans come in so many different colors.

We are all many different colors.”

Watch “Santa Bootcamp” on Lifetime.