Review: Sorkin goes behind the scenes of Lucy and Desi
Associated PressIf things had gone according to plan, Lucille Ball would have been a major movie star. But the new film “Being the Ricardos” does make one wonder if Ball may have had a few other successful careers, like director had she been born just a few years later. In Aaron Sorkin’s loving and sharp dramatization of a particularly fraught week during the making of “I Love Lucy,” Ball, as played by Nicole Kidman, is painted as serious and shrewd, someone who can visualize a scene and the audience reaction to it on the first read of a script. It’s practically criminal how easy it would be to watch performers like Shawkat, Arianda and Simmons throw jabs at one another and each get their own arc to chew on. As in “Molly’s Game” Sorkin perhaps overreaches with his therapy insights, positing that deep down all Lucille wanted was a place that felt like home.
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