J. K. Simmons Nina Arianda on Being the Ricardos and Aaron Sorkin s Script
With writerdirector Aaron Sorkins Being the Ricardos now playing in select theaters and streaming on Prime Video, I recently got to speak with Nina Arianda and J. K. Simmons about playing Vivian Vance and William Frawley. If you havent seen the trailers, Being the Ricardos dramatizes an intense week for Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) as they enter production on an episode of their hit sitcom I Love Lucy in 1952 from the table read to the taping while offscreen drama threatens to engulf their personal lives. While the drama that happens in the movie is true, it didnt all happen in the same week. Sorkin has previously explained how he came to this storyline: The only thing better than a story people don t know is a story that people think they know but they re wrong. 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 be
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