We all love Lucy so much so thatNicole Kidmanalmost backed out of playing her.
“I wasn’t initially [anxious],” Kidman said of playing Ball.
“Initially it’s like,Aaron Sorkinwrote this screenplay that you read and you cannot put down.
Nicole Kidman in ‘Being the Ricardos’.Everett Collection
It’s as good as a great novel.”
To which I then went, ‘Oh no, I’m not right.
Everyone thinks I’m not right, so I’m going to venture to sidestep this.'"
Ultimately, the production team refused to let detractors scare her off.
“The producer Todd Black and Aaron Sorkin were both like, ‘Absolutely not,'” she said.
“I was in Australia and they were like, ‘No.’
I didn’t want it to be how good an impersonation they were doing.
I wanted them to play the characters in the script.”
It hits select theaters Dec. 10 and Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 21.
