Javier Bardem

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Javier Bardem’s road to stardom began in Spain, where he grew up in a family of artists and performers. Since then, he has built a Hollywood resume that balances Oscar-worthy films with blockbusters like Skyfall, Pirates of the Caribbean and Dune. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie Geist gets together with Bardem to talk about his latest role as Desi Arnaz in the highly-anticipated new movie Being the Ricardos.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.1	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.9	Got a really good one for you this week, I think, with Academy Award winner Javier Bardem.
0:14.8	Javier co-stars with Nicole Kidman in a movie a lot of people are talking about right
0:19.3	now called Being the Ricardos.
0:21.8	It's the real-life story of Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnez, who of course
0:26.1	co-starred on I Love Lucy.
0:29.0	Nicole Kidman, before she even utters a word, striking as Lucille Ball.
0:34.0	If you haven't already seen the trailer or the promos, once you see this movie and you
0:38.4	see how much she looks and then sounds like Lucille Ball, it's staggering.
0:42.9	And Javier Bardem, a lot of people talking about his performance already as Desi Arnez
0:48.7	in terms of winning some big awards for acting coming up for both of them for Kidman
0:53.2	and for Bardem.
0:54.9	Super interesting guy, very, very nice guy.
0:57.8	He never met Javier before.
0:59.0	We got together at a little bar in New York City and talked about this movie.
1:03.3	He grew up in Spain, as you may know, knowing nothing about I Love Lucy, knowing nothing
1:07.8	about Desi Arnez or Lucille Ball.
1:10.5	And yet he was so fascinated by the character of Desi that he felt he had to play it and
1:15.0	really pushed to get the part.
1:17.6	He's married to Penelope Cruz, the famed actress, as you may know.
1:21.2	They've been married for 11 years.
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