‘Being The Ricardos’ Team On Shouting Their Lucy & Desi Love Story From The Rooftop (Of A Parking Lot) – Contenders New York

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Being the Ricardos writer-director Aaron Sorkin and stars Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York showcase to discuss the Amazo…

biopic of sorts about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, played by Kidman and Bardem, respectively.

For the film, Sorkin chose to compress a series of true events in the lives of the iconic married TV stars into one production week of making— the Monday table read through Friday audience filming. Those plot points include Ball being accused at the time of being a Communist, a crisis that could have ended the trailblazing couple’s rocketing careers that besides the sitcom including running their own Hollywood studio.

Kidman discussed how she morphed into playing both Lucille the person and Lucy the character played by Ball, describing how with a dialogue coach she found the voices for each. And all four stars — Kidman, Bardem, Simmons and Arianda (the latter two play Lucy and Desi’sco-stars William Frawley and Vivian Vance — shared when it was that they first felt they were inhibiting their characters. For most, it was little moments, as Bardem said, where “magic happens.

 

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