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Alia Shawkat ... Madelyn Pugh: Jake Lacy ... Bob Carroll: Linda Lavin ... Older Madelyn Pugh: Ronny Cox ... Older Bob Carroll: John Rubinstein ... Older Jess Oppenheimer: Clark Gregg ... Howard Wenke: Nelson Franklin ... Joe Strickland: Jeff Holman ... Roger Otter: Jonah Platt
- Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball
- Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz
- J.K. Simmons as William Frawley
- Nina Arianda as Vivian Vance
- Being The Ricardos Supporting Cast & Characters
Despite doubts surrounding her casting in Being the Ricardos, Nicole Kidman stepped up to take on the role of showbusiness’ most famous red-head. The prolific actress has shown a transformative talent in films such as The Hours and Bombshell in which she played real-life writer Virginia Woolf (an Oscar-winning role) and Fox News reporter Gretchen C...
Being the Ricardos will feature Kidman’s fellow Oscar winner Javier Bardem in the role of Ball’s Cuban husband, Desi Arnaz. CBS was hesitant to let Arnaz play his wife’s on-screen husband but Ball insisted on his inclusion, a pioneering move in terms of Latin-American representation on TV. Arnaz and Ball had a troubled marriage but a strong busines...
J.K. Simmons will portray actor William Frawley who played the Ricardos’ grumpy, penny-pinching landlord, Fred Mertz. Though Simmons may not be an exact look-alike of Frawley, his best-known role as Spider-Man’s Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson (the first character of the MCU multiverse), should have prepared him for his role in Being the Ricard...
Vivian Vance will be played by Nina Arianda. Ethel Mertz, Lucy’s TV landlady and accomplice in scheming, was played by Vivian Vance for the duration of I Love Lucy’s run; the actress will be played by Nina Arianda in Being the Ricardos. Arianda has a respectable career in both film and television that is similar to Vance’s and has a passing resembl...
Tony Hale as Jess Oppenheimer - Well known as the awkward Buster Bluth in the prematurely canceled Arrested Development, Hale will play Oppenheimer, producer and head writer of I Love Lucy. Alia Shawkat as Madelyn Pugh - Another Arrested Development alum (as the conniving cousin, Maeby Funke), Shawkat will join on-screen uncle, Hale, in portraying ...
Being the Ricardos is a 2021 American biographical drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, about the relationship between I Love Lucy stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star as Ball and Arnaz, while J. K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jake Lacy, and Clark Gregg are featured in ...
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Being the Ricardos: Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda. Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers--and another that could end their marriage.
Jan 6, 2022 · Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-American bandleader-turned-actor and comedian who starred as Ricky Ricardo alongside his real-life wife Ball in their hit sitcom I Love Lucy.He played a musician in the ...
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Jan 21, 2022 · Being cast in a film like Being the Ricardos, with its intense star quality, might have puffed up another actor’s ego. For Shawkat, the move manifests as a gentle push into another...
Vivian Vance. Tony Hale. Jess Oppenheimer. Alia Shawkat. Madelyn Pugh. Jake Lacy. Bob Carroll Jr. Linda Lavin. Older Madelyn Pugh. Ronny Cox. Older Bob Carroll. John Rubinstein. Older Jess Oppenheimer. Clark Gregg. Howard Wenke. Nelson Franklin. Joe Strickland. Jeff Holman. Roger Otter. Jonah Platt. Tip Tribby. Christopher Denham. Donald Glass.
