Javier Bardem has defended the decision to cast him as Lucille Ball’s Cuban husband in the new Aaron Sorkin film Being the Ricardos.
After a limited theatrical release on 10 December, Being the Ricardos will be available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video on 21 December 2021.
In her three-star review, The Independent film critic Clarisse Loughrey writes that Being the Ricardos “is about the inner mechanics of comedy writing” instead of functioning as a biopic.
Bardem also wondered whether this kind of casting criticism was only directed towards actors whose second language was English.