Don’t mess with Lucy.
But Aaron Sorkin is apparently making a film about Lucy and Desi called Being the Ricardo’s. And in the running for Desi is Javier Bardem, and intalks to play Lucy is Nicole Kidman.
Nicole what? Social media went nuts because no one, and I mean no one, should be playing Lucille Ball except that powerhouse actress, that multi-award-winning actress of stage and screen … and TV … Debra Messing.
Yes, from Will & Grace.
The film is set during one production week of I Love Lucy—Monday table read through Friday audience filming—when Lucy and Desi face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage. Originally, Sorkin was simply going to write the script, but then Cate Blanchett thought she should be Lucy and he decided he wanted to direct. But then Cate was out, and Javier and Nicki K said they were interested.
I love me some Kidman, and Javier is kinda delicious, but as Lucy and Ricky?
Cue Debra Messing and the internet, where people wondered TVs second favorite redhead shouldn’t be playing TVs first famous redhead. Rumors swirled that Messing, whose career is en feugo … I kid … was not available, and Messing, who does love to Tweet, instantly replied:
“Oh no, I’m available.”
Except … again … Variety reported that Messing had stated she would not do it:
“Like 15 years ago people would say, ‘Hey, do you want to do like a made for TV movie or something?’ And I always felt like, ‘Oh, I would not even touch that. Like she is untouchable.’"
And now Messing says:
“Ummmmmm, I changed my mind.”
Sorry, Deb, no change-sies, and, um, yeah, Nicole? One other actress, Frances Fisher, joined the fray and Tweeted out this photo of herself:
Martha Stewart is 79? Holy moly!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your Matt point.
ReplyDeleteAnd Martha does have the age, but I don't doubt that every time a covid virus sees her it's 'runaway! runaway!'
Anne hasn't been doing too much acting lately, has she?
Sorry, but Francis Fisher looks like Lucy in her 70's
I remember watching 'I Love Lucy'
ReplyDeleteas a kid a looooong time ago!
xoxo :-)
Gorgeous as he used to be, I cannot feel that Ben Affleck is a good example for anyone to follow.
ReplyDeleteLike @TDM I used to see I love Lucy as a kid
can someone please off the kraptrashian/jenner klan once and for all?
ReplyDeleteFEH to the rest of the trash.
I don't know, Debra Messing did a pretty good job of playing Lucy on that special episode of Will & Grace. Barden's face seems a little harsh for Desi, though. I do believe, however, that whoever plays her, it will all seem like a caricature. Let sleeping Ricardos lie.
ReplyDeleteSome people would probably say Clint Eastwood shouldn't get a shot either. Celebrities should stay at the back of the line, no matter how old and decrepit they are. I do believe that those who pushed the Covid is a hoax thing, should hold off until everybody else gets theirs. Then again, these are probably the same maskless cretins who spread the disease, sooo...... Oh, screw it! Let 'em wait in cages until their turn.
I can't see Nicole playing Lucy. She seems too cool and stoic for a role like that. But maybe she'll surprise me!
ReplyDeleteSomehow I have managed to avoid most Kardashian-related news over the years. I just don't pay any attention to those people. I barely know who they are, and if one of them walked past me I might think WHO THE HELL WAS THAT but I wouldn't be able to name them.
Hmm. Lucy. I have always thought Debra was a shoe-in for Lucy. Frances Fisher looks like Lucy, after Desi... when she smoked, drank, and played cards a lot with her gay folk. That would make for a wonderful play, btw. Hmm. I like the sound of Sorkin's script. And Nicole? No, honey. No.
ReplyDeleteAnnie? I love her. I know she's out of favor, but she's done some really great work. So, I will always like her, no matter how pretentious she wants to be. She tries to hard to keep that common person vibe going, even though she Audrey Hepburn.
Those two boy band hairs do not belong together. They look like a couple a few years too old to be going to a circuit part who go anyway and end up bickering the entire time.
I love me some Martha. Man. Prison made her cool. And, yes, I can't believe anyone would accuse her of using her money to butt in line. That lady is too tight with the purse strings to waste money on such BS.
Umm. Those two whores? Aren't they like 79 now, too? I wonder if they got their shots? Oh, I mean, as in penicillin, cuz those bitches are walking STD factories.
Matt doesn't wear his ring when he's with Ben because Ben claims it is too rough on the shaft of his penis. Dunno... read that... somewhere... Hmmm.
Thanks for all the gossip. LOVE IT. More, more, more. I was surprised you have not weighed in on the Sex In The City re-boot/re-start/resuscitation. I kind of want it to happen, but only if Kim is involved. Which she has refused, I know... but she was my favorite character. Kizzes.
A film about 'I Love Lucy' is so long overdue, the only surprise being that no one's attempted it before now. Now that it's on the way, one assumes, it's got my full attention. Watched them all on their first broadcast here going right back in the late 1950s. [I'm surprised to discover they started being televised in 1951]. If this film does get made and released theatrically it'll be quite a change to get back inside a cinema once more.
ReplyDeleteI believe Anne is the spelling for the royal version of Ann. Anne is my sister's given name. She was named after my grandmother, Anna. We learned growing up that addressing my sister as Annie would only get your head handed to you PDQ.
ReplyDelete@Debra
ReplyDeleteBitch is older than Cher!!!
@Dave
But I think Frances could pull of I Love Lucy Lucy really well.
@TDM and Hellen
I still love I Love Lucy.
@AM
They're like cockroaches.
@Deedles
Let sleeping Ricardo's lie indeed!!!
@Steve
I think Nicole could do it; Messing would be more impersonation.
And I have never seen an episode of anything Kardastrophe, but I still wish they'd go away!
@upton
Messing is caricature.
I used to like Anne, but feel she has become very fond of herself.
But Luke Evans revs my engine ... tall, built, British, gay!
I, too, love Martha, especially since prison.
I love your Matt theory, but he can do so much better than Affleck!
As for SATC, there isn't one without Samantha and these other nearly senior citizens are all too desperate for coins. I imagine they'll one day do SATC: Retirement Home one day!
@Raybeard
I'd like to see a film about Lucy, as long as she isn't made a cartoonish character.
@Anon
ReplyDeleteHa! Annie get your head!
With Messing - you lost me at 'powerhouse actress'. Maybe the tongue-in-cheek was inferred and I missed it?
ReplyDeleteI love all the Red Heads, but I'm not sure Nicole can stretch her face the way Lucy did. Maybe the film will be from a Business Lucy perspective where she was a whole different fish, more Shark than Clown, she was the power then...
ReplyDeleteI am tangentially(sp)related to the Ricardos I mean the Arnazes. A cousin of my dad was married to Marc Daniels who directed many episodes of Lucy's shows as well as Gunsmoke, Mission Impossible, and Star Trek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Daniels
I just don't see Nicole Kidman as Lucy somehow. I don't get the feeling she can do funny/slapstick, but who knows. Now Javier Bardem - oh my God, he's way too sexy to be Ricky but definitely a feast for the eyes!
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ReplyDeleteIt was full-on sarcasm!
@Jake
I think Nicole could give the essence of Lucy, without being a cartoon version.
@Traeders
I see Danny Pino as Ricky ... Google him, he looks like Desi!
I hadn't been a fan of Martha Stewart until she became a very outspoken not-a-fan of Gwyneth Paltrow. I can't believe she's 79.
ReplyDeleteMartha's age shows around the edges, but not in her attitude.
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