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Javier Bardem Reacts to Criticism Over His Casting as Desi Arnaz in 'Being the Ricardos'

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Javier Bardem is defending his casting in Being the Ricardos. During an interview with his co-star Nicole Kidman for The Hollywood Reporter, the 52-year-old actor says he didn’t quite realize how monumental it was to play Desi Arnaz and also defended being cast in the role despite not being Cuban. Click inside to read more… Javier revealed that he mainly knew Desi as a musician who worked with Spanish entertainer Xavier Cugat and said of I Love Lucy, “I wasn’t aware of how it big was.” While there was a subtitled version of the show in Spain, the actor had never seen it. “When I really started digging into him, the deeper I got, the more I knew how iconic [the show] was … it was like, ‘S–t,’” he continued. “S–t, what did we do?” Nicole

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