“I was like, ‘Yeah, I would love to give it a go,’” Kidman stated in the interview. “With Aaron’s words and his direction and Javier… that’s kind of a wonderful prospect to, you know. But yikes, off we go. Give it a go. Try my best see if I can do it.”
Kidman also noted that she has been doing plenty of research before diving into the wide world of Ball.
Lucillle and her daughter Lucie Arnaz was defended by posted a Facebook video as she acknowledges. ‘There seems to be a lot of discussion about Nicole Kidman. It should be Debra Messing! It should be Carole Cook! I don’t know.’
However, she noted that ‘We are not doing a remake of I Love Lucy. No one has to impersonate Lucy Ricardo, nor do the Vitameatavegamin routine or the chocolate factory routine or any of the silly things.’
Lucie stated: ‘It’s the story of Lucille Ball, my actual mother, not Lucy Ricardo, and her husband Desi Arnaz, my dad, not Ricky Ricardo. 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.’
Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing the upcoming biopic Being The Ricardos for Amazon after his streaming success with ‘The Trial Of The Chicago’ 7 for Netflix.