Nicole Kidman Took Up Smoking For Lucille Ball Role In ‘Being The Ricardos’

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Nicole Kidman is one of the most renowned actresses in the world but she faced backlash after being cast as Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos. The late I Love Lucy star holds a special place in many people‘s hearts and with the internet, people didn’t hold back sharing their concerns that she did not look enough like Ball.Kidman stars opposite Javier Bardem (Desi Arnaz) in the Amazon Studios film and she told TODAY she tried not to let the criticism get to her.

Nicole Kidman fully embraced Lucille Ball while filming Being the Ricardos.

Being the Ricardos, the knee-jerk reaction from many was that Kidman didn’t have the innate humor to play one of the funniest women ever to appear on television. Which, in all honesty, they may have been right about. Kidman has before, but the elastic-faced and kinetic or the expressive and (not coincidentally) red-haired both seemed like more natural fits.

“Today,” the morning program ran an interview where Kidman was asked if she gave “any space” to early critiques about her landing the role, including whether or not she looks enough like the legendary Ball.“Try not to, but [I’m] a human being, so there’s times when you go, ‘Gosh, maybe I’m not the right person for this.’ But that’s where having somebody like Aaron, who really said at the beginning, it was like, ‘I’m not wanting a perfect rendition or imitation of Lucy.

Hearing it all. It wouldn’t be easy for anyone to play the role of iconic comedian Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos — and critics have been quick to judge since Nicole Kidman was cast.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem hit the panic button a month before they were scheduled to begin filming .

Keith Urban is showing some support for his wife Nicole Kidman at the premiere of her new movie!

For Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman, the pressure of taking on one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time came with a lot of pressure.

Being The Ricardos.The actor plays the iconic performer in Aaron Sorkin’s new film alongside Javier Bardem, and recently told NPR about why the stakes felt so high.“Sometimes there is a thing where you go, ‘OK, can we just do it? And then if you guys want to destroy it, fine, we’ll accept that.

Nicole Kidman is back home in Australia with daughters Sunday, 13, and Faith, 10, after promoting her upcoming film Being the Ricardos in the states. The actress, 54, touched down in Sydney Airport with her kids on Thursday, Dec. 9, looking casual in black pants and a sweater vest, as seen in photos HERE.

“The Sad & Tragic Ending of Lucille Ball: Volume 2,” is out Tuesday. Still, the couple — who would a decade later become immortalized as the wholesome Ricardos in the groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy” — continued dating other people, almost up until their November 1940 nuptials.

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the kvetching and moronic social media backlash about Nicole Kidman being cast as Lucille Ball in the new movie “Being the Ricardos.” You were wrong, guys. The actress is sensational in the part — and is doing the finest work of her career.She nails the off-camera Lucy in her prime: the acidic tongue, her dream of a normal suburban home life, disdain for mediocrity and especially the unparalleled power she wielded as a woman in showbiz in the 1950s.

Nicole Kidman is an Oscar-winning actress with a slew of celebrated performances on the big and small screen — but even bona fide moviestardom doesn't make her career particularly interesting for her daughters.Kidman walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of her new film  at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Monday, and she spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner about her past remarks in which she said her kids were her «biggest critics.»The celebrated actress said she's actually

Nicole Kidman is on the Oscar campaign trail for her new movie Being the Ricardos and she just arrived in L.A.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have been happily married for 15 years — but they almost didn't get together at all.Urban recently sat down with Kelly Clarkson, and revealed that his own insecurities nearly led to him sabotaging what would become his successful marriage.Addressing reports that Urban said he initially wasn't interested in dating Kidman, Clarkson jokingly asked, «where was your bar for humanity if Nicole Kidman doesn't make the cut?»Urban said that those comments were completely