‘Being The Ricardos’: Read The Screenplay For Aaron Sorkin’s Snapshot Of Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Love Story
deadline.comEditors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.I Love Lucy was just about the most famous show in the history of television, but the dramatic behind-the-scenes story stayed off screen, until now.
Amazon Studios’ Being the Ricardos incorporates several of the true stories of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman), Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) and their staff.
Only writer-director Aaron Sorkin sets them all in one week.In Season 2 of I Love Lucy, Ball gets two pieces of troubling news on a Monday: A magazine reports that Arnaz has been seen around town with another woman, and Walter Winchell discovers that Ball had once applied to be a member of the Communist party, sharing that news with his audience.Ball and Arnaz show up to work to start the episode; Lucy fans will recognize the episode in which Lucy orchestrates a dinner party for Fred and Ethel to bring a reconciliation to the bickering couple.
Staff writers and actors Vivian Vance (Nina Arianda) and William Frawley (J.K. Simmons) are aware of the Winchell news too, but Ball and Arnaz want to get to work.
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