Rita Moreno defends Lin-Manuel Miranda over "In the Heights" casting controversy

Actress Rita Moreno is pushing back against critics of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" after the film and its creators were criticized for its lack of Afro-Latinx representation in major roles.

"You can never do right, it seems," Moreno said in a Tuesday interview with "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert. "I'm simply saying, can't you just wait a while and leave it alone?"  "In the Heights," the film adaptation of Miranda's award-winning musical, debuted on June 11 and was criticized for casting light-skinned Latinx actors for the lead roles. Miranda first wrote the story in 1999 — an effort to show Latinx representation through the story of a summer blackout in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood.  Miranda has since apologized and vowed to do better in his future projects.