Prime Video released a new trailer for Being the Ricardos.
The trailer sees Lucille Ball freeze just as she's about to deliver a line during a live taping of I Love Lucy. During that moment of pause, the trailer cuts to a newspaper headline that reads, "LUCILLE BALL IS A RED -- 'I Love Lucy' Star Denies Commie Now." This is a reference to a 1953 FBI memorandum in which Ball denied planning to vote as a Communist after registering for the Communist party in 1936.
Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, Being the Ricardos follows the lives of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) outside of I Love Lucy. The show also stars J.K. Simmons, Tony Hale, Clark Gregg and Jake Lacy, among others. Notably, Cate Blanchette was originally slated to play Lucille, and Kidman's eventual casting was met with controversy. Lucille and Desi's daughter Lucie Arnaz swiftly stepped in on Facebook, saying, "Stop arguing about who should play it – ‘she doesn’t look like her, her nose isn’t the same she isn’t as funny. Just trust us. It’s going to be a nice film and p.s. the voting is over."
"The only thing better than a story people don't know is a story that people think they know but they're wrong," Sorkin recently told EW. "The producer Todd Black spent over a year having meetings with me to tell me stories about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz that I'd never heard. For instance, that Lucy was accused of being a Communist. There were plenty of points of friction, and that's what I look for when I want to tell a story. I had this structural idea that appealed to me. I like claustrophobic spaces; I like claustrophobic segments of time. So I thought if I could tell the story during one production week of I Love Lucy — Monday table read through Friday audience taping — and tell it mostly on that soundstage, that there might be something good there. So I tried writing it."
Being the Ricardos arrives in theaters Dec. 10 and premieres Dec. 21 on Prime Video.
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