Amazon Prime Video released the first teaser trailer for Being the Ricardos, the upcoming film that explores the lives of I Love Lucy stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
The teaser explores the behind-the-scenes lives of real-life and on-screen couple Lucy (Nicole Kidman) and Desi (Javier Bardem). It ends with Lucy filming one of I Love Lucy‘s iconic episodes in front a live studio audience.
In addition to the teaser, Amazon released the following Being the Ricardos synopsis:
Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) are threatened by shocking personal accusations, a political smear and cultural taboos in Academy Award®-winning writer and director Aaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes drama Being the Ricardos. A revealing glimpse of the couple’s complex romantic and professional relationship, the film takes audiences into the writers’ room, onto the soundstage and behind closed doors with Ball and Arnaz during one critical production week of their groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy.”
Being the Ricardos is a project six years in the making. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, it was initially Cate Blanchett who was set to play Lucy, but Kidman replaced her in January 2021.
“The only thing better than a story people don’t know is a story that people think they know but they’re wrong,” Sorkin told EW. “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 being a Communist. There were plenty of points of friction, and that’s what I look for when I want to tell a story. I had this structural idea that appealed to me. I like claustrophobic spaces; I like claustrophobic segments of time. So I thought if I could tell the story during one production week of I Love Lucy — Monday table read through Friday audience taping — and tell it mostly on that soundstage, that there might be something good there. So I tried writing it.”
In addition to Kidman and Bardem, Being the Ricardos features J.K. Simmons, Tony Hale, Clark Gregg and Jake Lacy, among others.
Being the Ricardos premieres Dec. 21 on Amazon Prime Video.
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