杰克·莱西 Jake Lacy(饰Bob Carroll Jr.)的一段采访:
So then you go to work on Aaron Sorkin’s new film, Being the Ricardos. Your character and his partners created and wrote all of I Love Lucy. I feel like history has erased them from the equation.
Yeah! So I play Bob Carroll Jr., who along with Madelyn Pugh [played by Alia Shawkat] and Jess Oppenheimer [played by Tony Hale] wrote every episode of I Love Lucy. Which is nuts, when you think of how many episodes they were doing per season. Aaron Sorkin, who wrote and directed it, was very keen to say this is a painting, not a photograph. This is not a Ken Burns documentary. Most importantly, it's a guy who is never seen or heard, and has his entire life tethered to these two people. If they go down, he goes down.
How do you mean?
The story is that—and it's true—in a single week of I Love Lucy, [Ball] was accused of being a communist, at the peak of McCarthyism, and Desi was accused of sleeping with call girls. Also, she was pregnant with her second child and had to go to CBS and say, “You're going to do something you've never done and put a pregnant woman on television.” And this all happened in 48 hours. No one associated with the show knew whether they would even shoot on Friday, or whether these two would ever work again. So that's the human story beyond the icon of Lucille Ball"