{"id":1165019,"date":"2021-12-28T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165019"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:05:00","slug":"nicole-kidman-suggests-being-the-ricardos-promoters-were-scared-to-put-her-face-in-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nicole-kidman-suggests-being-the-ricardos-promoters-were-scared-to-put-her-face-in-the-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman Suggests \u2018Being The Ricardos\u2019 Promoters Were \u2018Scared\u2019 To Put Her Face In The Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fnicole-kidman-suggests-being-the-ricardos-promoters-were-scared-to-put-her-face-in-the-trailer%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=1165019&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>Usually, the lead of the movie is the main attraction. But that wasn\u2019t the case for \u201cBeing the Ricardos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actress Nicole Kidman recently reflected on why she felt marketers \u201cdownplayed\u201d her involvement in the project, which sought to explore the real lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beyond their hit comedy \u201cI Love Lucy.\u201d The movie faced a lot of criticism over casting decisions, which was likely a factor in how the promotions were presented to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m not on the internet, and I definitely don\u2019t Google myself,\u201d Kidman said of her experience. \u201cBut things trickle through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/26\/movies\/nicole-kidman-being-the-ricardos-lucille-ball.html\">said<\/a> the movie \u201cremains an occasional source of insecurity for her.\u201d When her interviewer mentioned only seeing glimpses of her face in the 75-second movie trailer, he asked for her thoughts on that particular marketing decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to answer that, you know? I don\u2019t handle the promotional part of it. Maybe they were just scared of showing me\u2026.Bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casting on \u201cBeing the Ricardos\u201d was fraught with tension all along. First, Kidman replaced Cate Blanchett after the star dropped out voluntarily, which she claims inspired no hard feelings from either party. \u201cI feel like there\u2019s a sacred pact among [actors and actresses] \u2014 whoever gets something, that\u2019s where it was meant to land,\u201d Kidman explained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Debra Messing openly vied to play Lucille Ball and seemed to inspire a lot of fan support. The \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d fans were not shy about making their opinions known.<\/p>\n<p>Kidman and Javier Bardem, who played Arnaz, experienced so much vitriol that they considered quitting the movie entirely.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of how big it was,\u201d Bardem said during 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. \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>While Kidman got slammed for not looking enough like Ball, Bardem was criticized for being a different nationality than Arnaz. The real Desi was Cuban while Bardem is Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Todd Black was able to convince reps for both actors to keep their clients in the movie. But he did try to persuade director Aaron Sorkin to delay the project for one year. When that didn\u2019t work, the controversial film forged forward even with criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the Ricardos\u201d has decent but not great reviews and is rated 70% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 74% audience score. One reviewer <a href=\"https:\/\/screen-queens.com\/2021\/12\/24\/review-being-the-ricardos\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cBeing the Ricardos is an enjoyably safe biopic that doesn\u2019t gloss over the troubled marriage and the struggles of being a woman in 1950s Hollywood, yet it never really lets you know how influential Ball was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salon said Kidman gave a \u201ccommendable\u201d performance as Ball while Bardem is \u201cstrong\u201d in his role as Arnaz. The movie was released December 10 in select theaters and became available via streaming on 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>Usually, the lead of the movie is the main attraction. But that wasn\u2019t the case for \u201cBeing the Ricardos.\u201d Actress Nicole Kidman recently reflected on why she felt marketers \u201cdownplayed\u201d her involvement in the project, which sought to explore the real lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beyond their hit comedy \u201cI Love Lucy.\u201d &#8230;<\/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-1165019","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\/1165019","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=1165019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165019\/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=1165019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}