Bringing a true-life story to the screen worked out well for Aaron Sorkin with his last film, The Trial Of The Chicago 7. He's back in based-on-real-life territory for his next awards-potential offering, Being The Ricardos, which finds Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem playing TV icons and husband-and-wife team Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Check out the teaser...
Ball and Arnaz were famously the stars behind the groundbreaking and classic 1950s television sitcom I Love Lucy, that focused on a happily married though seemingly mismatched couple – a flame-haired, accident-prone American housewife, and her sensible Cuban-American bandleader husband – that became the top-rated and most beloved show of the era. Being The Ricardos is set during one production week of the sitcom — Monday table read through Friday audience filming — when Lucy and Desi face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage...
It's a chance to really see how Kidman and Bardem take on the roles, bolstered by a supporting cast that includes JK Simmons, Tony Hale, Nina Arianda, Alia Shawkat and Clark Gregg.
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The film will be on limited release in cinemas on 10 December ahead of hitting Amazon Prime Video on 21 December.