Lucille Ball’s Daughter Defends the Casting of Nicole Kidman as ‘I Love Lucy’ Icon
Kidman is set to play Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos,” which is being produced at Amazon Studios.
Kidman is set to play Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos,” which is being produced at Amazon Studios.
Kidman and Javier Bardem will star as TV’s first family in the film, which takes place over the course of a week.
Sorkin read a dozen books on the subject and went through 21,000 pages of court transcripts to craft his Best Original Screenplay contender.
Aaron Sorkin, Steve McQueen, Sofia Coppola, Ramy Youssef, and Radha Blank will accept Final Draft Awards on March 2, 2021.
Bolstered by excellent direction from the great Thomas Schlamme, the “West Wing” benefit’s good intentions mostly make up for its unresolved significance.
“It’s so freaking good,” Sorkin says of “Mank.” “It’s breathtaking even by David Fincher standards.”
Sorkin’s epic period piece about the famed trial is a giant, giddy burst of theatricality, but Cohen’s performance is on another level.
“I fear the American people have the same choice as the Chicago 7 had,” said Sacha Baron Cohen. “Do we stand by or stand up?”
Sacha Baron Cohen joins Emmy winners Jeremy Strong and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Sorkin’s star-studded political drama.
“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” the first of this fall’s Netflix awards contenders, will debut in Chicago and Boston theaters Friday.
The awards season hopeful featuring an outrageously starry cast will debut on the platform October 16.
The “Succession” star took the protest atmosphere of Sorkin’s 1968-set “The Trial of the Chicago 7” to extremes.