Recommended. If you want the real story of Lucille Ball’s (The Big Street) very interesting life - - particularly the early years - - TCM’s well researched podcast, Lucy, is the place to go. In fact, writer/director of Being The Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) is interviewed on the podcast. He admits to his mildly troubling tendency to insert deliberate fiction into his bio-pics . . . he calls them ‘metaphors.’ In this film, he irritatingly compresses three, true-life Lucy calamities into a single week. Regardless, there are some great performances here, each of them escaping the mimicry trap. Foremost is Nicole Kidman (The Hours) who does an excellent impression of Lucy Ricardo, but then drops into a more natural voice when Ms. Ball is off camera. Also splendid is Nina Arianda (Midnight In Paris) as Vivian Vance and the always reliable J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Bill Frawley . . . but Javier Bardem (Biutiful), as Desi, seems miscast.
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Who would you have cast for Desi?
Posted by: Susan Barb | February 07, 2022 at 02:01 PM
I don't know. Someone with more of a comic flair.
Posted by: Kona Duke | February 11, 2022 at 02:28 PM