Ricky Ricardo: Last News

Before Johnny Sibilly was an out-and-proud star of game-changing LGBTQ+ shows like “Pose,” “Hacks,” and the “Queer as Folk” reboot, he was an actor in a class, trying to find his voice and place in the entertainment industry.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOn June 29, 1966, CBS had an internal debate over its morning programming: Whether to cut to a news conference about a turning point in the Vietnam war — the U.S. bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong — or to air a decade-old “I Love Lucy” rerun. They decided to stick with “Lucy.”The sitcom, which ran 1951-57, is more than beloved: It’s become part of our collective unconscious.

Apparently it is the season to celebrate the iconic marriage and professional relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed a penetrating, funny, revealing, and ultimately moving film, Being The Ricardos which covers a lot of ground in the Lucy/Desi world using dramatic license to place several real events in their lives all in the course of one week of production on I Love Lucy. Although starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as the iconic pair, it felt quite real and actually was as you discover watching Amy Poehler’s marvelous love letter to their lives and times in Lucy And Desi, which like Ricardos will be available on Amazon Prime, the perfect companion piece to Sorkin’s film, and a compelling documentary portrait all on its own.

With each new update from Being The Ricardos, the Aaron Sorkin-helmed biopic comes new glimpses of Nicole Kidman channeling the Hollywood legend Lucille Ball. The latest look of Nicole, 53, as the I Love Lucy star came on Tuesday (Apr. 27), when she and co-star Javier Bardem were spotted on set. Nicole was in full costume, with red hair in tight curls to mimic the comedy icon. In the Long Beach, California sun, the red really shone through, making Nicole look more like Lucile than ever before. As for Javier, 52, he was dressed in a white tuxedo jacket, and black cummerbund, reminiscent of Desi Arnez’s outfit as Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy.

Aaron Sorkin is following up with a biopic about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz — titled — and that Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are playing the couple.«I think that the people thought that we've cast them as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo,» Sorkin tells ET's Matt Cohen. «The film takes place during a production week of — a Monday table read to Friday audience taping, with a whole bunch of long flashbacks which are telling the story that got us here — and because there's a table read, there's rehearsals and then there's tape night, we do see moments of them being Lucy and Ricky Ricardo.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem have gotten a pair of new co-stars in their Amazon Studios film Being the Ricardos, with J.K. Simmons and Nina Arianda signing on.Kidman and Bardem will play I Love Lucy stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the series, with Simmons and Arianda playingWilliam Frawley and Vivian Vance, via Deadline.Frawley and Vance played Fred Mertz and Ethel Mertz, the neighbors of Ball and Arnaz's characters Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, in the series, which ran from 1951-1957.

Nicole Kidman has broken her silence about her upcoming role as Lucille Ball in "Being the Ricardos." Kidman, 53, opened up to Variety on Wednesday to talk about playing Ball opposite Javier Bardem, 51 — who is set to play Ricky Ricardo — in the Aaron Sorkin-directed biopic. "I was like, ‘Yeah, I would love to give it a go,’" Kidman stated in the interview.

Nicole Kidman, after news that the star is in talks to play her mother was met with a backlash online. The comedy legend will be depicted in Aaron Sorkin’s new film, Being the Ricardos, which will focus on the on and off-screen relationship between Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz.