Has anyone else seen the released stills from the currently-in-production "Being the Ricardos?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not feeling it. Kidman's red wig looks too long and too modern! I realize it's way too early to judge, but there doesn't seem to be much effort in transforming Kidman. Bardem looks slightly more convincing, but only slightly.
Thoughts?
I saw the multiple photos that were released. I'm also trying to hold my judgement until I see the final product. I'm keeping in mind these are likely cell phone pictures from far away and not professional stills with correct lighting etc. But, I think they are concentrating on more of the acting then how they both really looked. Most of the photos released I think are of the flashbacks. They haven't shown Nicole with the classic I Love Lucy hair, clothes, etc. I'm rooting for the project and even if she's not Lucy's twin, her acting better be good! lol. I really don't know who I would have picked for this. I know people have said Debra Messing, but I wouldn't have picked her either. All I keep reading from the writer/director is that they're amazing actors, etc. So I guess we'll have to wait it out, I certainly hope this is good and not a disaster!
Also, I'm trying to remember that an actor doesn't have to look identical to the real person for it to be a good movie. I remember when I first heard Heath Ledger is playing the joker. I was horrified. He turned out to be amazing and won an oscar. So, I hope hope hope she's good! haha
Excellent points! That being said, though, Ball never wore her Henna red hair in that fashion even in her movies during the 1940s (she was married to Arnaz three years before becoming a redhead after signing with MGM in 1943). Lucy starred in two Technicolor musicals that same year, "Dubary was a Lady" and "Best Foot Forward." In the latter, Lucy already had her "Lucy Ricardo" hairstyle. It never looked anything like what Kidman is sporting.
Still, I have to remember that Renee Zellweger looks NOTHING like Judy Garland, yet she pulled off a performance so powerful she won an Oscar.
We shall see.
Good point about Renee Zellweger, she didn't look much like Judy but was amazing. Lucy's hair is always so hard to copy! So they may be a little off with that. I just hope the acting is good! Lucie Arnaz seems to have confidence in it, so we shall see is right! I just want the story to be good and the acting to be believable so that we're engrossed in the story that it doesn't matter if the hair is 100% right. Hopefully the movie comes out sometime this year!
shareWhen I first watched ILL as a kid (cough, back in the very early '70s), my Mom - who never loved the show - used to love to point out that Ball's hairstyle was ten years out of date (a '40s do in the '50s). Only years later, did I realize she was right...most '50s women did NOT have that hairstyle.
Example: in "Lucy and Superman", the show is in its sixth year and it's 1957. One will note Doris Singleton has kept up with the times and is donning a very then-modern hairstyle. Lucy, however, is still wearing her hair the way she had for 15 years!
PJ recently pointed out that she read that Desi liked her hair long, so she kept it that way even though the style was years out of date.
Yes I read the same thing about her hair! That's also a common theme with Latin men. My friends grandmother is in her 80s and still has to keep her hair long because her husband won't let her cut it! haha.
As with Lucy, as soon as she divorced Desi she cut her hair haha. Doris Singleton's hair was very nice in the sixth season!
Both are too old and look it.
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