The Lucille Ball biopic “Being the Ricardos” test screened on Monday for the third time in a little over a month. The film, which was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, follows Lucy (Nicole Kidman) and Desi (Javier Bardem) as they “face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage”.
A person who attended the screening on Thursday night was mixed-to-positive about the film [via Data Lounge]
“Aaron Sorkin's Lucy/Desi biopic. Nichole Kidman is really, really good as Lucille Ball. It's a subtle performance I could not have imagined her doing, and she NAILS it. I had no idea how she (or anyone) could pull off the '50s Lucy voice, but she did. Javier Bardem is good as Desi Arnaz, but way miscast. Desi was 35, and still fit and charming in this period. Bardem is 54, and looks it, and is thick in the middle. MVP is JK Simmons as Bill "Fred Mertz" Frawley. It's a solid, entertaining flick, but falls apart in the end. And, there is one HORRIBLE heavy handed scene between a female writer and Lucy that introduces wokeness to 1953. Just horrible garbage that takes you RIGHT OUT of the movie. Thankfully it's a short scene.”
”Being the Ricardos,” which may actually be called “Meet the Ricardos” (unconfirmed), is rumoured for a January 2022 release.