Posted: 1/12/21 at 9:52am
Couldn't they find better casting for this?
https://deadline.com/2021/01/aaron-sorkin-nicole-kidman-javier-bardem-lucille-ball-desi-ricardo-being-the-ricardos-1234651297/
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:19am
Yes, pity they could ONLY find 2 Oscar winning actors for the project.
Who would you suggest in place of them?
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:56am
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:58am
Oscar winner, Schmoscar winner. The porcelain, unmoving face of Nicole Kidman playing one of television's comic actors does not compute. I think it's a perfect opportunity to give someone like Kate McKinnon a chance to break into a more prestige role.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 11:11am
Posted: 1/12/21 at 11:31am
Posted: 1/12/21 at 11:53am
This is a movie about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Not a movie about Lucy & Ricky Ricardo.
Lucille Ball had a lot of highs, and lot of lows. The Commie Red Scare, Desi's womanizing, his drinking, the divorce. These are far from funny topics.
BrodyFosse123 is right. This is being done by Lucie & Desi, Jr. If they are ok with it, then there you go.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 12:04pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 12:46pm
Nicole Kidman’s American accents are very spotty (in acting, I’ve come to think of accents as icing on the cake— a nice adornment if done well but easily scraped to the side if poorly made. But with an iconic person like Lucy whose voice I’ve heard so much, it’s going to pull me straight out of the movie if it’s not done well) and I don’t think she can pull off the different timbres Lucy used in-character or out of character, either. I love Nicole Kidman, but Lucille Ball is a stretch. Cate Blanchett would have been much better.
Updated On: 1/12/21 at 12:46 PM
Posted: 1/12/21 at 1:52pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 2:32pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 2:49pm
nealb1 said: "This is a movie about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Not a movie about Lucy & Ricky Ricardo.
Lucille Ball had a lot of highs, and lot of lows. The Commie Red Scare, Desi's womanizing, his drinking, the divorce. These are far from funny topics.
BrodyFosse123 is right. This is being done by Lucie & Desi, Jr. If they are ok with it, then there you go."
The plot of the movie is one week in the filming of I Love Lucy when their relationship is tested. So it doesn't appear to be an all-inclusive biopic.
Also, Spaniard is not the same as Latino, and I am very surprised the kids are OK with that aspect of it. Bardem is white and Desi being Latino is very much a fundamental element of their history and of this story.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 3:27pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 5:48pm
GiantsInTheSky2 said: "I must be confusing this with another Lucy & Desi project - what was filming in Chelsea about two years ago? They had closed down part of 8th Avenue and I remember it being tied to a project about L & D."
Hahaha. You saw this. The bathroom trailers on film productions are labeled “Lucy” and “Desi.” Kidman and Bardem are in talks for a film that’s been in development for a few years now.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 6:28pm
Kidman as Ball can only be camp.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 7:39pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 7:43pm
Ms. Kidman's attempts at comedy in Bewitched and The Stepford Wives remakes came across as mechanical. I think it will be the same here. Her forte is drama.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 8:17pm
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:54pm
Tom5 said: "Ms. Kidman's attempts at comedy in Bewitched and The Stepford Wives remakes came across as mechanical. I think it will be the same here. Her forte is drama."
Yeah, I recall her comedic timing recently in The Prom fell pretty flat for me, though in all fairness to Kidman, I think her role as written didn’t give her much to work with in the first place.
I understand she was supposed to be great in To Die For, but I’ve yet to see that film yet. I said I’ll be giving her a shot, but it’s not the most exciting casting news. I still think Javier looks like a pretty strong fit for Desi though.
Anyway, I just saw that Stephanie J. Block got in on the Kidman bashing. As a major Lucy fan I hope this film is great, but it’s troubling how much criticism the lead actress choice is already getting at this point.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:56pm
Block was straight up rude about it.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 11:20pm
Sutton Ross said: "Block was straight up rude about it."
I’m a fan of her’s, but even if Kidman is a million times more famous, as one working actress talking about another, Block’s comment was quite mean spirited. But at least Kidman is unlikely to ever see it. Or rather, that criticism coming from Block, as plenty of others have already made the same joke.
Posted: 1/12/21 at 11:43pm
Sutton Ross said: "Block was straight up rude about it."
But was she wrong? Everything she said was factual. Lucy was known for her expressive face, and Miss Kidman’s face barely moved at all in both The Prom and (more so) The Undoing. It’s not a personal attack (as Block would later go on to point out), but it is an odd casting choice. There’s plenty of more appropriate actresses for the part, and some have been publicly named by the children of Lucy & Desi.
Posted: 1/13/21 at 8:26am
GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Sutton Ross said: "Block was straight up rude about it."
But was she wrong? Everything she said was factual. Lucy was known for her expressive face, and Miss Kidman’s face barely moved at all in both The Prom and (more so) The Undoing. It’s not a personal attack (as Block would later go on to point out), but it is an odd casting choice. There’s plenty of more appropriate actresses for the part, and some have been publicly named by the children of Lucy & Desi."
It doesn’t matter if she was wrong or right the tweet was in bad taste.
Posted: 1/13/21 at 9:05am
Posted: 1/13/21 at 9:50am
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