‘Being The Ricardos’ Stars Took On The Challenge Of Playing Showbiz Icons – Contenders Film: The Nominees
deadline.comJoining Deadline as part of the Amazon Studios presentation at Contenders Film: The Nominees event were two of the stars of Aaron Sorkin’s funny, moving and cleverly constructed story of the relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos, which all takes place in a week during the course of a taping of an episode of I Love Lucy.There are momentous events in that week, including Lucy’s real-life pregnancy being revealed, an accusation that she had Communist ties when blazing headlines appeared, and also a tabloid story claiming Desi was having an affair.
All these things happened, but not in the space of seven days; Sorkin felt it was best for dramatic purposes to combine them.
It certainly worked, as witnessed by three Oscar nominations for Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in the lead acting categories, and J.K.
Simmons for his role as William Frawley/Fred Mertz in the Supporting Actor contest.Bardem and Simmons talked about the challenges of taking on such iconic roles.
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