BEING THE RICARDOS | Scene At The Academy

[@Michelle-my7ye]

I personally loved that Sorkin managed to leave us heartbroken by Desi rather than angry. He was a great man overall, and people are not their mistakes! But we do have to live with them.

[@lkhjason]

The moment when Desi (as Ricky) said “Lucy, I’m home” and Lucille (as Lucy) froze, reflecting that that was what she ever wanted and the reason why she did the show, did it for me. It was something Lucille wanted in reality but could only achieve if she continue with the fictional TV world. Such great writing. Now I finally understood when Sorkin said that he wasn’t looking to make/remake a story about “I love Lucy/ Lucy Ricardo” but that of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz.

[@m.syauqiabdurahman2798]

Yeah and how that line will forever changed my pov of watching I Love Lucy . Like after watching BTR , i watch ILL and it was still funny but it was also heartbreaking

[@mikery1721]

This scene was truly heartbreaking and for me solidified the best actress race! Nicole deserves to win her second oscar for this portrayal of Lucille Ball

[@javieralonsonadal6829]

This is horrible,Lucille Ball not is botox

[@rics1883]

Disagree. Nicole didn’t feel like Lucille ball at all

[@shandalear3252]

@@javieralonsonadal6829 yeah...an embarrassment.

[@StephenTheSuipod]

Nicole Kidman & JK Simmons were great in this movie. Their mannerisms were spot on..

[@jphallatt519]

What a stupid fucking comment! They didn't have Botox back then idiot! Maybe learn the English language before you insult!

[@tiputhesultan]

That magical patch of ground bit was brilliant. Especially with how it came full circle through Sorkin framing that last shot of the set as said patch of ground. Masterful storytelling!

[@christoskazakis9437]

This scene emotionally destroyed me! Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem were spellbinding! Sorkin truly took two celebrities and in the end spoke about a desire for a career, for family and ❤️ LOVE!

[@dtlopez100]

Yes, something we all want.

[@moetheroe7338]

Nicole Kidman is a real legend 👏🏻❤️

[@lemorab1]

I adored "I Love Lucy" and grew up with the show in the 1950's. I assumed, as a kid, that the Ricardos were just Lucy and Desi being themselves, only on a set, lightly fictionalized and filmed. I was crushed when they got divorced. I was about 11 years old. I still want the dream of the happily married Ricardos. I didn't want to see this movie, "Being The Ricardos," because Nicole and Javier are both way too old to be playing these parts. At the time these real events were happening, Desi was about 38 and Lucy was 43. This scene here really moves me and makes me sad and yes, I can see them as these people, though I still have my issues with this casting.

[@donnareed1015]

That scene was so powerful and it definitely broke my heart! I loved this movie❤

[@TheRealCcE]

Desi is so underrated.

[@Nina5144]

Having watched a recent biography of the great and funny Lucille Ball - this drama is dire. Kidman cant move her face and Javier is huge in size and more ike a boxer than Desi. A good review quote: “Nicole Kidman was not a good choice for Lucy. She is a beautiful woman but she has made certain choices regarding her appearance, and those choices include the heavy use of Botox and fillers, which consequently results in a very limited range of expressions on her face. That is the exact OPPOSITE of what made Lucy special. Lucy was one of the most expressive actors on TV. She quite literally a flexible face and used those great expressions to make us laugh.” I totally agree with it.

[@dbyrneish]

She's a fantastic actress, I just wish she could still move her face. Lucy was all about the funny faces

[@vechris2001]

Hush. It's not Lucy. It's Lucille

[@ddduva4440]

It was a great movie. The casting and the writing. So many layers

[@alexandraalberti5029]

This is the scene I cried. Especially when they put “Lucy and Desi divorced.” Because that is doing the “end of a fairytale and marriage”

[@3dartistguy]

Desi was a cheat, an adultereer and a louse.. Thats why she divorced him.

[@cerdas1814]

@@3dartistguy he actually asked for the divorce. She agreed and filed it under her name. He loved her but knew their love had turned toxic. She was mad at first and then agreed. That's why they were able to love each other even after the divorce. They really were each others true love

[@3dartistguy]

@@cerdas1814 no Lucy wanted to divorce. It was the second time she filed since she caught him cheating in the 1940s. She did like not only his continued cheating, drinking coupled with his increasing violence. She even told the judge that her real life with Desi was the complete opposite of their idealized television life. Had he not descended u to drunken violence they might have stayed together but she could live with the adultery, drinking and violence.

[@cerdas1814]

@@3dartistguy If you read the books that they wrote and published it states that desi asked for the second divorce in 1960. Lucy filed it. And he had not gotten violently drunk. He was just completely distant from Lucy at this point. And he started drinking because he got more and more stressed out from all the work he had to do as a president. Yes the cheating was a huge factor in it, but in the end Desi recognized how much it was hurting her, but also realized that there was no return and if they walked away they might be better friends and better parents.

[@3dartistguy]

@@cerdas1814 I dobt know what books your reading that said he asked for divorce but books and documentaries I’ve read said Lucy pushed for divorce because again he had gotten violently drunk and continued with his adultery. Lucy reportedly told the judge her life with Desi was a nightmare. Yes the pressures bay have caused him driniking heavily and cheating on her but unlike Hillary Clinton, Lucy could not continue to be a fool of. Lucy later too over as president of Desilu and handled the pastures of running a studio just five h til she sold it in 1967 to Paramount pictures. I have nothing that it was Desi who asked for the divorce. It was Lucy and Desi was probably too drunk to even notice or care.

[@ddduva4440]

And JJ Simmons and the Actress that played Vivian Vance…..also very good.

[@michaelmesa2660]

Nicole’s performance was brilliant. She’s totally due for her 2nd oscar. Sublime and total perfection!

[@Nina5144]

Having watched a recent biography of the great and funny Lucille Ball - this drama is dire. Kidman cant move her face and Javier is huge in size and more ike a boxer than Desi. A good review quote: “Nicole Kidman was not a good choice for Lucy. She is a beautiful woman but she has made certain choices regarding her appearance, and those choices include the heavy use of Botox and fillers, which consequently results in a very limited range of expressions on her face. That is the exact OPPOSITE of what made Lucy special. Lucy was one of the most expressive actors on TV. She quite literally a flexible face and used those great expressions to make us laugh.” I totally agree with it. S

[@Holmes.2.0]

Nicole was not only playing badly but also she is not in any sense close to what lucy is. it only shows that u don't know Lucy Ball at all.

[@GregorBarclay]

“Don’t gaslight me” seems unlikely to appear in a conversation between two people in 1958.

[@helenkvarta8654]

Was thinking the same thiing

[@josefsilvia5360]

You do know that the movie "Gaslight" came out in 1944, right? The term began to fall in the vernacular and most likely already was around that time.

[@indy-fs6de]

One of the earliest uses of the term in television was in a 1952 episode of The Burns and Allen Show titled "Gracie Buying Boat for George."

[@straak]

The term gaslight comes from the film GASLIGHT, produced in 1944

[@julietteyork6293]

Nicole looked like she was wearing a creepy Halloween mask of Lucy. Her face was frozen and expressionless - the opposite of the woman who was known for extreme facial movement. Worst casting choice in history.

[@farithfalcon4538]

I would give her a second oscar for Dogville ❤

[@michaelmesa2660]

Even her take in Birth was sublime.

[@kevlow9494]

@@michaelmesa2660 Quite an underrated gem, for me

[@LorraineMcFly]

Gotta love when they cast actors who look nothing like the people they're supposed to be portraying.

[@Lu_82]

Best script, hands down.

[@bradleyscarton3931]

Best script? He got so many things wrong. As a Lucy fan, I became so angry at how much he got wrong. He had an agenda and failed to capture the intensity of real life events. Cramming three events that happened in different years in one week is just plain foolishness especially concerning such high profile and well documented people like Lucy and Desi.

[@리즌포]

PERFECT

[@vmpslayer20]

A lot of people made fun of Nicole before the movie released and didn’t expect her to deliver so good. She was so good in this movie. She clearly deserves her second Oscar. She didn’t win but she will in the future.

[@cleenegame]

Wouldn't it be fab if both Javier and Penelope won on Oscar night 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@retroguy9494]

Fiction always plays better than truth. And the truth is that no such phone call happened with Hoover in front of the audience. I've had a book for YEARS which explains, in detail, exactly what happened. They both knew they could lose their studio and were frightened. At first, after the accusation, Desi considered calling President Eisenhower but didn't really know him well enough and decided against it. So he called J. Edgar Hoover, who he knew rather well from the race track at Delmar. Desi asked if the FBI had anything at all on her and Hoover told him no; as far as the FBI was concerned, she was in the clear. Literally HOURS before the show, Lucy was cleared, I believe, by the House Un-American activities committee. So Desi DID speak to the studio audience about it. But what he REALLY said was that Lucille was "no communist." He said they both despised the communists and everything they stood for, that he was kicked out of Cuba because of communism and that they had both voted for Eisenhower. He said Lucy was 100% American. Lucy stood off set and cried. When he introduced Lucy, he said "I want you meet my favorite wife, my favorite redhead...in fact, that's the ONLY thing red about her!" The audience gave her a standing ovation.

[@bradleyscarton3931]

And why Sorkin didn’t use Desi’s actual words and went with words that don’t pack the punch of the real life ones is just plain dumb.

[@retroguy9494]

@@bradleyscarton3931 Well, you and I agree on that one. But as I said, fiction plays better than truth. The dumb masses would be more entertained and thrilled with Hoover speaking on the phone through a microphone to the audience rather than Desi speaking to them, which he did before EVERY show during the warm up. This incident was VERY important in our history as it shows how just a few untrue words can destroy a beloved person. I think Sorkin should have paid it the respect it deserved by showing it exactly as it happened.

[@abangtengku]

I think just MAYBE BESIDE DUNE & THE POWER OF THE DOG,BEING THE RICARDOS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THE MOST NOMINATED MOVIE AT THE UPCOMING OSCAR,ALSO "THE HARDEY THEY FALL" MOVIE & "CODA" MOVIE THAT'S FEW OF THE REASON WHY THEY HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST SCENE FROM THE FEW POTENTIAL NOMINATED MOVIE 😊 AND BOTH JAVIER BARDEM & NICOLE KIDMAN ARE LONG OVERDUE FOR THEIR SECOND OSCAR 😊😊

[@jasonslyric4798]

After seeing this movie which is one of the best movies of all time , I ask and ask and I ask , if Dezi Arnez had that much pull ?! No one has yet to tell me . Nicole Kidman's form is like Humphrey Bogart Casablanca ! Javier Bardem is full Beast Mode . His finest role . To me .

[@mudstyle5288]

Anxiously waiting on the Spencer scene

[@theturtlearchives]

They even had the red folders with Desiluu on it, great attention to detail.

[@lawaraya]

One of my favorite movies

[@65g4]

Loved this film need to see it again

[@65g4]

If anyone cares i have watched it again and i loved it even more. Ive also watched the luci and desi documentary. Ive also watched many I love Lucy episodes.

[@patrarus6097]

Excellent summary! I loved the movie; however, despite its high quality on all levels, it did not win the expected Oscars for Nicole, Javier and Aaron.

[@POPDATA]

House of gucci next pls

[@Holmes.2.0]

Nicole was the worst ever choice to play Lucy.

[@borood1188]

It was such an awful casting. She was a TERRIBLE Lucy.

[@kimberly11091]

You realize Ball' daughter is the one who cast her right?

[@paulpodlucky]

Nicole , killed it,PERIOD......

[@markygonzales7305]

I wish I can be an actor in the future…

[@rics1883]

Movie was meh. Nicole Kidman didn’t transform as Lucille ball. She even sounded Australian at some point in the movie.

[@3dartistguy]

I wish it was on NETFLIX.

[@jordanbrown1384]

It’s on Prime Video.

[@3dartistguy]

@@jordanbrown1384 only if you have an account with Amazon

[@u571scooter3]

@Rachel Dickson HOW DO YOU KNOW? AND WHEN?

[@3dartistguy]

@Rachel Dickson but you cant point to any specific citation.

[@calibankzthomas9229]

Idc what anyone says Nicole nailed Lucy voice both as "lucy" and "lucille". Yes there is a difference lucy is the character on tv and Lucille the real person. And she make a the difference clear.

[@rosaestela1000]

I loved loved this show!!! But with due respect to Mr. Bardem (don't hate me) Desi was very very handsome (that was Lucy's headache) and Bardem is not, sorry!!!! But he is a very good actor!! Very good, informative movie.

[@deepachand9689]

All this praise for a scene which is totally made up ,a figment of this team's imagination ,because we can still see the original tape whe Desi Arnaz was humble and tearful in front of the audience ,and no Hoover did not come on the phone for Desi ,instead the FBI kept a dossier on them as long as Hoover was the chief of the agency.Is'nt such artistic liberty making fools of the public ?

[@straak]

It’s a movie, not a biography!

[@essessessesq]

i do NOT approve of infidelity, but Jerry Lewis's wife of 39 years was not mistaken when she told him when he became a BIG star...."Jerry, you know i was a Big Band singer, and i know show business. So, I also know that you are going to have attractive woman throwing themselves at you. And i know thatYOU. as a weak man, will give in to them many times. I have just one request. Please do not embarrass me publicly." And he didn't, for many many years

[@dinnerandashow]

A bit cringy. Luci is suppose to be 40, but she is 54 and looks 60. Old enough to be the character's mother. Kidman must have a terrific agent.

[@kimberly11091]

How when it was Lucy Arnaz who wanted her to play her mother

[@samo619]

Lmao she looks nothing close to the real Lucy

[@carolkelly8848]

There is nothing to laugh about. Neither Aaron Sorkin or Lucie Arnaz wanted look a likes. If they had Nic would have been made to look more like her than she did. The one who should be laughing is Kidman. With all the whining and hand wringing the movie is doing great and Kidman is getting praise and awards. Good for her.

[@TECfan1]

This movie honestly stunk imo. Didn't buy her as Lucille.

[@betsyross3963]

The show that was filmed when the Red scare occurred was Lucy and Ethel Go into Business and buy a dress shop! Not accurate.

[@KarthikCBKRPET]

2 one line 😍

[@BewithKarthik]

ஜெய்பீம்

[@seductive2333]

House of Gucci

[@lifechanges557]

Sorry I am probably the only one, who felt these 2 actors should not have been picked to play Desi and Lucy.. I found them horrible,.. Sorry just did. I Liked the TV movie actors better who played Lucy and Desi, Maurice Benard and Frances Fisher back in 1991.

[@ellDiavolo666]

who the hell casted that thing

[@prawinsprawin7068]

👍

[@hadriennathanbalmelle9386]

don’t give the oscar to nicole kidman. please.

[@hadriennathanbalmelle9386]

@Rachel Dickson yes i am. she didn’t give an oscar worthy performance

[@hadriennathanbalmelle9386]

@Rachel Dickson ok lmfao

[@hadriennathanbalmelle9386]

@Rachel Dickson ok lmfao

[@christoskazakis9437]

She was breathtaking….. I was a mess after this scene! Hopefully she picks up her second Oscar!!

[@drewwilliams3079]

Really hope Nicole wins her second deserved Oscar in three weeks. Amazing performance

[@f33rcetv34]

fuck i love Nicole Kidman but shes SO BAD at accents you can just hear her Australian accent constantly

[@puneetkumar1575]

🇮🇳💪🙏

[@ABHlSHEK]

waiting for marakkar