Nicole Kidman is having fun. The Oscar-winning Australian actor got her first real chance at physical comedy when playing the beloved American comedian Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos and she is loving it.
“In Moulin Rouge’ I had a little bit of physical comedy and things, but rarely have I had access to doing these things,” Kidman said. “It was glorious doing it. …
It was so freeing and exciting, and also making people laugh is also like, What? This is, like, fun!” she added. Being the Ricardos, streaming on Amazon Prime from Tuesday, goes behind the scenes of the 1950s television comedy series I Love Lucy to relate a week in the life of Ball
and her real life husband and co-star Desi Arnaz, played by Javier Bardem.
Ball’s career is threatened by claims that she was a Communist, while the couple’s personal life is roiled by rumors that
Arnaz has been cheating and Ball’s being newly pregnant. The initial casting of Kidman was met with sniping on
social media earlier this year, with fans
complaining that the Big Little Lies star didn’t look like the exuberant Ball. The
criticism shook Kidman as she was preparing to shoot the movie, but director and writer Aaron Sorkin convinced her
to brush off the comments. -Reuters
