Nicole Kidman Reveals Who Encouraged Her Not to Give Up Lucille Ball Role Amid Casting Backlash
. Internet critics said she neither looked nor sounded like Lucille, and it made the Oscar winner consider dropping out, she said in a new interview with"I tried not to [listen to the criticism], but I'm a human being, so there's time when you go, 'Gosh, maybe I'm not the right person for this,'" she shared. She credits director and screenwriteras her source of encouragement during the difficult time.
Instead, Aaron was looking for someone who could connect with Lucille's story, and Nicole said there's "a lot of it I can relate to" as one actress to another."There's a scene in it where they say, ‘You're 39, and that's it. It's kind of over for you," she explained. "I know that feeling. I sort of had that. And it was like, OK. Where television suddenly opened a door for her, it opened a door for me.