Being the Ricardos, the knee-jerk reaction from many was that Kidman didn’t have the innate humor to play one of the funniest women ever to appear on television.
Which, in all honesty, they may have been right about. Kidman has before, but the elastic-faced and kinetic or the expressive and (not coincidentally) red-haired both seemed like more natural fits.
And both would probably have done well in the role. But the thing is, Sorkin didn’t make a comedy, so Kidman didn’t have to be hilarious.
Read more on glamour.com