Luceal Ball and Desi Arnez were not just a TV power couple, they were maybe the TV power

couple. In a new film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, we spend a week with them.

And it's an eventful week. The Cole Kidman plays Lucy, she's accused of being a communist,

and Javier Bardem is Desi, and he's butting heads with the bosses of Isle of Lucy over

his wife's real life pregnancy.

I'm Aisha Harris, and I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about being the Ricardo's

on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

It's just the two of us today, so let's get to it. So for this movie, Aaron Sorkin has taken

some real events and condensed them so that they're all happening in the same week, which

they fortunately did not in real life, that would be entirely too much.

Lucy's pregnant, she's called out as a communist and rumors of Desi's cheating have hit

the papers. As they spend this awful week trying to get a show on the air, we see their

complicated relationships. Some of that is in flashbacks as well as their creative process.

In addition to Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, the cast includes J.K. Simmons and Nina

Arianda as Bill Frawley and Vivian Vance, the actors who played Fred and Ethel and I love

Lucy. There's also Alia Showcut as Madeline Pugh, one of the show's writers and Tony Hale

as Jess Oppenheimer, the show's producer and head writer. The movie is now in theaters

and streaming on Amazon Prime. Aisha, you are a I love Lucy person, is that right?

Yes, I guess that's that's an identity. So yeah, I would say I'm an I love Lucy person.

I own every season of the show on DVD. And that qualifies you as an I love Lucy.

Yeah, it does. I've watched it many times. I could probably reenact certain episodes from

memory if you needed me to ask me later, Linda. I'm happy to perform. I was going to say this

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