On the bill of Being the Ricardos with Javier Bardem, Nicole Kidman is a delight for Prime Video subscribers. From Paper Boy to the Nine Perfect Strangers series, via Fur: selection of programs with the actress and available on the platform.
BEING THE RICARDOS
Unveiled directly on Prime Video at the end of 2021, Being the Ricardos looks back on the relationship between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the two stars of the Love Lucy series in the 1950s. While we find Aaron Sorkin at the realization (The Big Game, The Seven of Chicago), it is Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem who lend their features to the famous couple.
We are thus plunged behind the scenes of a week of production of the sitcom, while the star tandem threatens the show and their marriage by multiplying personal and professional nervous breakdowns. From the top of her 54 years, the Australian-American actress signs a performance that deserves a statuette: we find her metamorphosed and totally melted under the costume of Ball.
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS
In the summer of 2021, Nicole Kidman proved that she had become an essential face of the series by becoming the heroine of Nine Perfect Strangers. After a lawyer in Big Little Lies and a wife whose husband mysteriously disappears in The Undoing, the actress plays the director of a therapy group.
With his true guru tunes, Masha promises an inner rebirth for the nine people who have gathered in his fitness center. A series in 8 episodes in which the actress gives the answer to Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Tiffany Boone or Bobby Cannavale.
PAPER BOY
In 2012, Nicole Kidman co-starred in Paper Boy with Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack. Directed by Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler), this detective film is set in Florida in the late 1960s. The actress plays Charlotte, a woman as haunting as she is disturbing, who calls two brothers for help.
One is a reporter for the Miami Times and the other for the Moat County Tribune. They both go to investigate a death row inmate accused of disembowelling the local sheriff four years earlier. A case that will bring back the ghosts of the past …
AND MAN CREATED WOMAN
Remake of the film The Women of Stepford released in 1975 and the novel of the same name by Ira Levin from 1972, And the man created the woman invites us to push the portal of Stepford. Young happy couple and in love, Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) and Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick) leave New York to settle in this chic suburb.
A new place that seems straight out of a fairy tale, with its pretty houses, its manicured lawns, and above all its women of unreal beauty and happiness. Quickly, Joanna wonders about these wives who are too submissive and loving to be true …
FUR
An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus, Fur is portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the role of the American street photographer who committed suicide at the age of 48 after a long and heavy depression. In the feature film, the actress plays the wife of a famous fashion photographer (Ty Burrell) of whom she is the assistant.
Tired of this figurative life, she is suddenly drawn to her neighbor Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.) whose only eyes are visible. Camera in hand, she ends up going up to his house and goes there to discover a mysterious universe. Very quickly, this relationship will transform his life and his art forever.
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