Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem hit the panic button a month before they were scheduled to begin filming . Their cause for alarm — triggered after realizing the magnitude of the iconic characters they were set to portray -- was so intense, that when their efforts to back out of the film was essentially rebuffed, they then «begged» director Aaron Sorkin to push production for a year.It's an astonishing tale captured in the latest issue of , where the actors talk about, among other things, coming to terms with the high expectations that came with a film about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, whose sitcom, at its height, drew a whopping 60 million viewers each week.
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