{"id":1128251,"date":"2021-12-17T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128251"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:44:27","slug":"sht-what-did-we-do-javier-bardem-and-nicole-kidman-tried-to-quit-being-the-ricardos-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sht-what-did-we-do-javier-bardem-and-nicole-kidman-tried-to-quit-being-the-ricardos-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sh*t, What Did We Do?\u2019 Javier Bardem And Nicole Kidman Tried To Quit \u2018Being The Ricardos\u2019 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsht-what-did-we-do-javier-bardem-and-nicole-kidman-tried-to-quit-being-the-ricardos-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Even Academy Award-winning A-listers Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman were met with skepticism from \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d fans. <\/p>\n<p>These two were cast to play the leads in \u201cBeing the Ricardos,\u201d a film about the real lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. But the response was swift after casting announcements were made, and the vitriol got so extreme that both Bardem and Kidman attempted to back out of the Aaron Sorkin-directed production altogether.<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues fans took with the duo is that they didn\u2019t resemble the real-life couple. Fans especially rebelled against the fact that Bardem is Spanish while Arnaz was Cuban, which the actor later addressed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/nicole-kidman-javier-bardem-interview-being-the-ricardos-pressures-1235062363\/\">interview<\/a> with The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we do with Marlon Brando playing Vito Corleone? What do we do with Margaret Thatcher played by Meryl Streep? Daniel Day-Lewis playing Lincoln? Why does this conversation happen with people with accents?\u201d the \u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d star demanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have your accent. That\u2019s where you belong,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s tricky. Where is that conversation with English-speaking people doing things like \u2018The Last Duel,\u2019 where they were supposed to be French people in the Middle Ages? That\u2019s fine. But me, with my Spanish accent, being Cuban? What I mean is, if we want to open the can of worms, let\u2019s open it for everyone. The role came to me, and one thing that I know for sure is that I\u2019m going to give everything that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fans decided that Debra Messing should play Ball on the big screen and that Kidman was absolutely the wrong choice. Both actors confessed to THR that they didn\u2019t realize what a big deal \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d fandom was until they faced such intense criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of how big it was,\u201d Bardem said during the interview. \u201cWhen I really started digging into him, the deeper I got, the more I knew how iconic [the show] was \u2026 it was like, \u2018Sh**.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kidman said she had the same exact reaction. \u201cSh**, what did we do?\u201d the actress recalled thinking. \u201cI got frightened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood A-listers revealed during the interview that they both tried to quit the film to avoid further hatred from fans. But the producer talked them into staying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, this whole thing\u2019s falling apart,\u2019\u201d producer Todd Black told THR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lead actors unsuccessfully tried to convince Sorkin to delay production a year. Eventually, they went forward with filming despite all the reservations from fans. And the Bardem\/Kidman combo did have one important supporter. Arnaz and Ball\u2019s daughter Lucie Arnaz defended the casting decision, saying the movie was about the real-life couple and not about \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d characters. This reality affected who got the lead roles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/being_the_ricardos\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> currently classifies \u201cBeing the Ricardos\u201d as 72% fresh. The audience has had similar reactions, giving the movie a 71% rating. The biographical drama is currently playing in select theaters and begins streaming on Amazon Prime starting December 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Academy Award-winning A-listers Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman were met with skepticism from \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d fans. These two were cast to play the leads in \u201cBeing the Ricardos,\u201d a film about the real lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. But the response was swift after casting announcements were made, and the vitriol got so extreme that both Bardem and Kidman attempted to back out of the Aaron Sorkin-directed production altogether.One of the issues fans took with the duo is that they didn\u2019t resemble the real-life couple. Fans especially rebelled against the fact that Bardem is Spanish while Arnaz was Cuban, which the actor later addressed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.\u201cWhat do we do with Marlon Brando playing Vito Corleone? What do we do with Margaret Thatcher played by Meryl Streep? Daniel Day-Lewis playing Lincoln? Why does this conversation happen with people with accents?\u201d the \u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d star demanded.\u201cYou have your accent. That\u2019s where you belong,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s tricky. Where is that conversation with English-speaking people doing things like \u2018The Last Duel,\u2019 where they were supposed to be French people in the Middle Ages? That\u2019s fine. But me, with my Spanish accent, being Cuban? What I mean is, if we want to open the can of worms, let\u2019s open it for everyone. The role came to me, and one thing that I know for sure is that I\u2019m going to give everything that I have.\u201dMeanwhile, fans decided that Debra Messing should play Ball on the big screen and that Kidman was absolutely the wrong choice. Both actors confessed to THR that they didn\u2019t realize what a big deal \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d fandom was until they faced such intense criticism.\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of how big it was,\u201d Bardem said during the interview. \u201cWhen I really started digging into him, the deeper I got, the more I knew how iconic [the show] was \u2026 it was like, \u2018Sh**.\u2019\u201d\u00a0Kidman said she had the same exact reaction. \u201cSh**, what did we do?\u201d the actress recalled thinking. \u201cI got frightened.\u201dThe Hollywood A-listers revealed during the interview that they both tried to quit the film to avoid further hatred from fans. But the producer talked them into staying.\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, this whole thing\u2019s falling apart,\u2019\u201d producer Todd Black told THR.\u00a0The lead actors unsuccessfully tried to convince Sorkin to delay production a year. Eventually, they went forward with filming despite all the reservations from fans. And the Bardem\/Kidman combo did have one important supporter. Arnaz and Ball\u2019s daughter Lucie Arnaz defended the casting decision, saying the movie was about the real-life couple and not about \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d characters. This reality affected who got the lead roles.Rotten Tomatoes currently classifies \u201cBeing the Ricardos\u201d as 72% fresh. The audience has had similar reactions, giving the movie a 71% rating. The biographical drama is currently playing in select theaters and begins streaming on Amazon Prime starting December 21.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}