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Fans’ Reaction To Seeing Nicole Kidman As Lucille Ball In The New Movie

by Lauren Novak • Published November 11, 2021

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Fans' Reaction To Seeing Nicole Kidman As Lucille Ball In The New Movie
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Being the Ricardos, the film about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, comes out on Dec. 10. With the premiere rapidly approaching, the first full trailer has been released. Fans are having mixed reactions to seeing Nicole Kidman as Lucille in the new movie.

The trailer also shows Javier Bardem as Desi. The movie was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and focuses on one week in the filming of I Love Lucy. It details the troubles between the couple. Their daughter, Lucie Arnaz, helped with the film to make it as accurate as possible.

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Fans have mixed reactions to the ‘Being the Ricardos’ trailer

BEING THE RICARDOS, US advance poster, from left: Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball, 2021
BEING THE RICARDOS, US advance poster, from left: Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball, 2021. © Amazon Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection

One person tweeted, “Legit emotional at the #BeingTheRicardos trailer. Looks like a fantastic picture. P.S. I’ve been a Lucille Ball superfan since I was seven and I can confirm that Nicole Kidman looks and sounds fantastic as does Javier Bardem and the entire cast Star-struck I’m gonna be a wreck Dec. 10.”

RELATED: ‘Being The Ricardos’ Star Nicole Kidman Transforms To Promote Her Next Project

FOREVER, DARLING, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, 1956
FOREVER, DARLING, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, 1956 / Everett Collection

Others were not impressed by the casting choice, which Lucie said she stands by. Another fan tweeted, “Idk how I feel about this Lucille Ball casting cuz she had an incredibly expressive face, and Nicole Kidman doesn’t really have that same facial range.”

BOMBSHELL, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, 2019
BOMBSHELL, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, 2019. ph: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle / © Lionsgate / courtesy Everett Collection

Lucie previously shared that people should realize that Nicole is portraying Lucille, not her character Lucy. She isn’t doing any of the silly things that Lucy did on the show in the film. She added, “There will be humor in the film, but it is a story of the two of them and how they met and what went right with finding the show, what went wrong, their relationship, their love affair.”

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About Lauren Novak

Lauren Novak is a journalist who wrote more than 5,000 nostalgia and pop culture stories for DoYouRemember? as a Senior Staff Writer and Editor.

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