italian vacation i love lucy's iconic theme music and title cards are also faithfully recreated in the trailer while lucy and desi fans remain divided about their feelings and impressions of the upcoming film being the ricardo's reportedly has the full approval of the couple's NUMBER_TOKEN year old daughter lucy arness in fact the aging actress made a post on her instagram stating she felt like the film was astounding arnez went on to explain how she felt like kidman had successfully captured her mother's soul hey if you're enjoying this video so far be sure to give it a like and subscribe to factsfirst for more and keep watching to see who else is expected to appear in being the ricardos kidman has given us a few spoilers earlier this year kidman sat down with fellow actor chris rock for varieties actors on actors program and discuss the prep work that was involved in gearing up for the role she mentioned that she had to put an incredible amount of time and energy into capturing the heart and spirit of ball kidman explained that lucille had a very distinct way of speaking and she had to step out of her comfort zone to embody her accurately being the ricardos isn't just some kind of i love lucy reboot far from it it's more so about lucy and desi's relationship and marriage unlike their hit sitcom kidman says that being the ricardos is going to be a very deep production desi and ball got married in NUMBER_TOKEN and they parted ways NUMBER_TOKEN years later in NUMBER_TOKEN. while their on-screen personas were light-hearted and jovial behind the scenes their personal lives were pretty tumultuous but despite their many problems and eventual split they never once stopped caring for each other and never ceased being a crucial part of each other's lives not everyone is thrilled about the film's casting choices both nicole kidman and javier bardem's casting came under scrutiny by fans and critics after it was announced they had been selected in particular some took issue with the fact that bardem is spanish while arnez was of cuban descent sorkin addressed these criticisms however saying his casting of kidman and bardem was so much more about ball and arnez as actors than the characters they played on i love lucy some people who took issue with those casting choices assumed they had been selected to portray lucy and ricky which makes sense given the film's name but sorkin told entertainment tonight earlier this year that the film more so focuses on the couple's on and offset relationship when the cameras weren't rolling the movie will start with a table read on monday and will cover the events through the week up until the live audience taping on friday thrown into the mix will be several long flashback sequences that will flesh out the story showing the audience a bit of ball and arnez's backstory at least one of the flashbacks as revealed by lucille and desi's daughter lucy will take place in the late NUMBER_TOKENs more than a decade before lucille had become lucy ricardo lucy got a chance to sit in on the production of the film for a couple days and she has nothing but praise for kidman's portrayal of her mother she described kidman's performance in nothing short of glowing
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