A month after its theatrical release, Amazon Prime launches the first long trailer for “Being the Ricardos” , a film starring Nicole Kidman , who plays the legendary American actress Lucille Ball , and Javier Bardem , who plays the Cuban actor Desi Arnaz .
“Being the Ricardos ”, Is a biographical film of the couple of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz , who not only shared the stage, but also their lives, through a marriage that turned stormy.
The film is produced by Amazon Studios , and reflects the rise to fame of Lucille Ball, who in addition to becoming all An acting star, she was also a successful television director and producer.
Lucille Ball’s autobiographical film
The plot recalls the successful series “I Love Lucy” , starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who got married in 1940.
In the trailer, Kidman, an Australian-born actress, is seen as Lucille Ball while filming “I Love Lucy”. It is seen as she prepares to enter the scene, and gives the best of herself for her audience, along with Arnaz, with whom she shares the stage in the fun series of the decade of the 50.
In the series, Ball is the wife of Ricardo (Arnaz), a director of orchestra. The couple lives in New York, and they live a series of funny situations.
But that good relationship between the protagonists of the series, it is far from the true relationship that the couple of actors had in real life.
Stormy life of the couple of actors
And not only that, their professional and married life, already stormy at times, gets complicated even more so because the star faces an investigation by the FBI , for allegedly being a member of the Communist Party, which would have registered in 1936, according to what is published by the site The Hollywood Reporter .
In the images released this Wednesday, it reflects part of the chaotic life that the couple lived, which ended up divorcing in 1960.
The tape covers a complicated week of recording of “I Love Lucy”, considered one of the most successful series of all time in the United States .
In one of the scenes, the Spanish actor Javier Barden, who plays Ball’s husband, tells him: “Yes they boo you, we are finished. ”
In the film they also appear JK Simmons , who plays William Frawley, and Nina Arianda as Vivian Vance, who are neighbors and friends of the couple in “I love Lucy.”
Lucille Ball died on 26 April 1989 and Desi Arnaz on December 2, 1986.
The film is released in December
“Being the Ricardos” opens in theaters next 10 December and Prime Video on 21 December.
Just a few hours after its release, the trailer takes more than 43, 000 views.