Being the Ricardos

Oy vey.

OMG

Is this a movie or a biopic on NBC?

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I came back from the dead to talk Cate Blanchett out of this role.

[quote]Nicole Kidman is the spitting image of Lucille Ball on the set of the comedian's biopic!

No she's not.

Kidman is now the same age as Ball was in 1963. Lucille Ball was no longer a Ricardo or an Arnaz.

Get a younger actress, people.

Like Glenn Close in the new Sunset Boulevard movie and season 16 of the Real Housewives of Orange County, this is something that the world does not need.

Jesus, that red haired PA in the middle photo w/ Kidman in the OP article looks more like Ball than Kidman. And he's a man.

This is trending number five on Twitter right now

[quote]We caught a first look at her deranged take on Ball.

Dreanged? She's standing outside in the wind on set, you have zero idea what her "take" is.

[quote]Nicole Kidman is the spitting image of Lucille Ball on the set of the comedian's biopic!....No she's not.

You do realize Lucille Ball didn't walk around life in full movie star drag don't you?

DL fave Rachel York played Ball in a TV movie. Was she any good?

This was pretty good:

Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography

She was a great Roseanne.

No words

Nichole Kidman is in over her head in another movie role that isn't meant for her.

Debra Messing should've been given this role.

Anyone remember Nichole playing Grace Kelly?

Fucking disaster.

It's sort of amazing that the procedures haven't curtailed Kidman's employability.

Jesus, she looks like a cross between Harriet Nelson and an apple doll in that tweet.

She sort of looks like what would happen if someone tried to paint Lucille Ball on a thumb.

Amanda Bynes does a terrific Lucy.

I used to like her. She’s gone off the deep end, though.

Amanda Bynes doesn't do anything well except go nuts.

[quote] Anyone remember Nichole playing Grace Kelly?....Fucking disaster.

Yeah, I remember when her fellow actors in The Screen Actors Guild nominated her Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

This looks like shit. "Lucy Ricardo" is a tough impersonation, but Lucille Ball is near impossible.

The only thing Nicole Kidman ever impressed me in was "To Die For." I now suspect that part was not that much a deviation from her self.

Nicole is so much prettier than white trashed-face Ball. I Hate Lucy. What a cunt. And she looked 60 when she was 30 so, I think Nicole's got this.

R28 Disagree. Lucy was already 40+ when "I Love Lucy" began.

Ball was stunning in her 20s and early 30s.

Who will be playing the flight attendant?

This whole venture is inexcusable.

Lucie Arnaz is asking Lucy fans to take a deep breath and keep their nasty comments to themselves so I’m assuming she’s somehow involved. Consultant?

Twitter is dragging a bitch 😂

Fuck Debra Messing. She can't act for shit.

omfg. 😂

Someone mentioned Aubrey Plaza on Twitter. She might have been an interesting choice. Better than Kidman, anyway.

R35. Lucy as Thelma Ritter

Debra Messing would have been better.

[quote]Debra Messing would have been better.

She did a good imitation,suitable for exactly what she did, a sitcom parody. Nothing she has done gives the impression she could headline a dramatic Aaron Sorkin production.

They reused a Reba mannequin for this, right?

Who remembers Frances Fisher in this made for tv dreck?

Nicole’s eyes are too small because of all the Botox and fillers. One of Lucy’s main quirks was her opening her eyes really wide.

Claim physical superiority when they clearly grow fat quicker and age much worse.

Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard certainly came closer to resembling Lucy and Desi than Nicole and Javiar.

She looks like walked off the set of the Ron Howard How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She looked like she walked right out of Whoville.

Judge for yourself, r12...

Acting is just an excuse for Nicole Kidman to wear weird wigs, isn't it?

R47, ROFL.

I am stealing that and announcing it during a lull in the conversation at the next cocktail party I attend.

[quote]Nicole’s eyes are too small because of all the Botox and fillers. One of Lucy’s main quirks was her opening her eyes really wide.

She's an actress, she'll act wide eyed.

This was on this morning.

If you do a Google image search with the face of that “Lucy” statue, the results are hilarious.

Yes R41... a great choice, too.

^^At least she looks more like Lucy^^

How can this movie POSSIBLY be good?

Well, Angela Bassett looks nothing like Tina Turner, so...

^^But Nicole Kidman is so well established. . . she’s just NK in a different wig. I didn’t know who Bassett was until her performance as Tina.

I like Nicole but this seems like a disaster.

So there weren't any AMERICAN actors to play Lucy?

kidman is an untalented bozo with the best publicist and agent in town.....actors roll their eyes when u mention her.

[quoe]kidman is an untalented bozo with the best publicist and agent in town.....actors roll their eyes when u mention her.

Now if you actually knew any real actors, you might have a point.

R14 Patrika Darbo is definitely the superior Roseanne. I love her in that role.

They better not turn this into a fucking Mommie Dearest camp fest. Don't fuck with my childhood idols.

People have a little faith, the movie is being written and directed by Oscar Winner Aaron Sorkin , you know,who's last picture was just up for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture. He might know what he's doing.

Speaking of Sorkin, Allison Janney would make a great late-life Lucy.

[quote]Debra Messing should've been given this role.

Messing can't act. I'm not saying Kidman is going to be good in this, because all signs point to her being as awful as usual in a role that's not meant for her, but Messing couldn't pull this off.

[quote]Lucie Arnaz is asking Lucy fans to take a deep breath and keep their nasty comments to themselves so I’m assuming she’s somehow involved. Consultant?

Lucie controls the life rights to her parents and she's a barracuda. You can't do sh*t with either ILL or her parents without her hand out. It has made her comfortably rich so she can do her charity work and community theatre in Palm Springs.

They paid her handsomely for this dreck, and she has producer credit and ring-kissing status.

I've been turned off by biopics ever since I caught Rich Hall ranting about them

Dreck? They just started filming. What's wrong with you?

[quote] Anyone remember Nichole playing Grace Kelly?....Fucking disaster.

[quote] Yeah, I remember when her fellow actors in The Screen Actors Guild nominated her Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

They also nominated her for “The Undoing” this year.

I hear Catherine Zeta-Jones came in to audition for Grace Foster, but they offered her the part of Mrs. Trumbull instead.

[quote] They also nominated her for “The Undoing” this year.

I loved her in “The Undoing” , if I were in the Guild I would have too.

[quote] I hear Catherine Zeta-Jones came in to audition for Grace Foster, but they offered her the part of Mrs. Trumbull instead.

Don't be ridiculous. They wanted me for Little Ricky, but I didn't want to tape my breasts down.

I should have been cast as Lucy, but wasn't. Don't these Hollywood fuckers know what's going on in society?

I accidentally read this thread title as “Beating the Ricardos.” Now, THAT I would watch!

r74 Us too.

First Bewitched, now I Love Lucy, how long until they have Kidman star in a fucking I Dream of Jeannie re-boot?

The debacle that "Bewitched" was in no way Nicole Kidman's fault. It was 100% writer director Nora Ephron. It should have been the same plot as the show, no behind TV series shitfest. Shirley would have been a hoot, and Will Ferrell was no Darren. I stated this years ago here. They should have had Jim Carrey as Darren and then twenty minutes before the end have Greg Kinnear come thru the door with no explanation and continue as Darren.

Christy almighty can she stop working for just one minute.

[quote]Someone mentioned Aubrey Plaza on Twitter.

To play who — DROOPY?!

Death has come to your little town, Sorkin. You can either ignore it or you can help me to stop it.

bitch used a shit load of face stuff in The Hours.....she too good to use it now?

she looks as much like lucy as i do

Why this ho get so much work? she does not snag gr8 ratings.

Apparently she was smoking a cigarette on the set of The Hours and accidentally lit her prosthetic nose on fire and voila, a film was born.

She looks so ugly

Of all the talented actressess, we keep getting stuk with her, she must hve a helluvah agent

She's the one that really talks to Xenu...

dont know who she fukin but they they sure get her lots o work.

Most of her work is funded by her now. She has a production company and that's why so many of her projects get greenlit.

R86 😂

boycott anything she does, she is a talentless skunt who belongs far far away in tommy land.

Mare of Easttown will be playing Little lucie, the daughter, but as a butch.

I heard Viola Davis is playing William Frawley in a case of colorblind and gender blind casting.

R46 I only watched the first two minutes but they certainly sounded good.

omg another piece of shit from kidman.......why?

Simply, i don't see what the point is of making this movie in the first place? Is kidman thinking this is her Renee "Judy" oscar winning role?

Those Roseanne unauthorized biographies are *gold*. I love how the one got actors who look chromosome challenged.

I absolutely hate the title of this thing. I dislike “ing” titles anyway, they started with Raising Arizona and never stopped. It’s tired but somehow Hollywood thinks it still sounds cool.

another kidman flop?????