‘Being the Ricardos’: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem Embody Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in First Teaser-
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Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz! The actors transformed into the real-life pair in the first teaser for their upcoming flick, Being the Ricardos, which will tell the story of the I Love Lucy stars who married in 1940 and split 20 years later.
The teaser shows the pair both on the set of the sitcom and off, as Nicole’s Lucille Ball marvels in a voiceover, “I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing.”
“I work side-by-side with my husband, who is genuinely impressed by me. All I have to do to keep it, is kill it for 36 weeks in a row, and then do it again the next year,” she says. “You know I did this show so Desi and I could be together. I had no idea it was gonna be a hit.”
The teaser came just days after the pair’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, revealed she’d seen the full Aaron Sorkin flick, which she praised as “freaking amazing.”
“That guy made a great movie. What can I tell ya? He captured the essence of that time in their lives so well. He captured the heart of my mother, my father, their relationship,” Lucie said of the director in an Instagram video. “He captured the love between those players on the I Love Lucy show, the tension that was brought on in this particular week when all hell broke loose.”
As for the actors who played her parents, Lucie said that “Nicole Kidman became my mother’s soul.”
“She crawled into her head. I don’t know how you do that,” said Lucie, who previously celebrated Kidman’s casting. “She cared very deeply about this part. It shows. I believed everything she said. She looks beautiful.” Read more from ET.
