'Being the Ricardos' lets Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem cosplay as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem — when Aaron Sorkin isn't turning TV's royal couple into talking points. Our review
is a lot of things, including but not limited to: a scenes-from-a-marriage melodrama ; a portrait of an O.G. boss-lady who took no prisoners and even less shit; a peek at how the 1950s TV-show sausage got made; and a great excuse for current famous people to play beloved famous people of the past.
But make no mistake, it is first and foremost an Aaron Sorkin Production™, with all of the pitfalls and pleasures and table-pounding that implies. Set during a single episode’s production in‘s first season in 1952, but mashing up several years’ worth of scandals and interpersonal spats, this tribute to TV-couple royalty continually threatens to devolve into one man’s soapbox.
Who, to be fair, are brought back to life by two extremely talented and nimble performers, and in a way in which the “karaoke after midnight” aspect of so much biopic acting is balanced out by a surprising amount of nuance. When the trailer for this movie first hit the internet, the masses clutched pearls and bemoaned the casting ofas Lucy, saying that everyone’s favorite willowy Australian star was the wrong choice to play the comedy legend.
This notion extends to a lesser degree to the supporting cast as well, and while both Nina Arianda and J.K. Simmons make for a snazzy double act as Vivian Vance and William Frawley, a.k.a. Ethel and Fred, they also get slotted into Woman Fighting Constricting Social Parameters But Also Her Own Envy and Cantankerous But Secretly Kind Mentor.
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