Aaron Sorkin, Vol. II
Happy Sad Confused
Josh Horowitz
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Prepare your ears, humans. Happy, sad, confused, begins now. |
| 0:09.0 | Today on Happy, sad, confused, Aaron Sorkin returns to tell the story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey guys, Josh Harrow, it's here with another edition of Happy, sad, confused. |
| 0:21.0 | I always love it when I can say is back returns. |
| 0:26.0 | And I always love it when it's someone of the caliber of Aaron Sorkin, I can say that about. |
| 0:32.0 | It was a real, real honor to have him on the podcast about, I don't know, 12, 14 months ago, |
| 0:38.0 | talking about the trial of the Chicago 7 and kind of an even bigger honor that he came back |
| 0:43.0 | because that means I'm doing something right and he's making good movies and we're all happy. |
| 0:48.0 | And I think you will be too after you hear this conversation. |
| 0:51.0 | As I said to him, it's always kind of like a masterclass in writing and directing and filmmaking, |
| 0:56.0 | storytelling when you talk to Aaron Sorkin. |
| 1:00.0 | It's just pearl after pearl and yes, I'm in the tank for Aaron Sorkin guilty as charged, |
| 1:06.0 | but I've always loved his screenwriting, his television shows, and now the films he's been directing. |
| 1:12.0 | Molly's game, the trial of the Chicago 7 and his latest being the Ricardo's. |
| 1:17.0 | If you don't know about being the Ricardo's here's the deal, this is basically a story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, |
| 1:23.0 | of course known as the real life couple that made I love Lucille. |
| 1:27.0 | What you may not know is that Lucille Ricardo, the character Lucille Ball played, |
| 1:31.0 | and I didn't realize this was such an extreme character for her. |
| 1:35.0 | I mean, I guess in retrospect, that's obvious when you look at the show, it's a heightened kind of character. |
| 1:39.0 | But to see this movie, you see the difference, so striking, so evident. |
| 1:45.0 | And you see it in Nicole Kimman's brilliant performance as both Lucille Ball and yes, |
| 1:51.0 | Lucille Ricardo in bits and pieces on the show. |
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