Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are working together again

They have already worked as a duo once, and very well. Now, Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem return to share the cast, this time lending their voices enchantedan animated musical produced by Apple Studios and Skydance Animation.

The artists had already worked together on the film Being the Ricardos in which they played respectively the comedy couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. In Aaron Sorkin’s 2021 film, they both received Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Actor for their characterizations.

In the new animated project, in addition to Kidman and Bardem, John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Jenifer Lewis, André De Shields and Jordan Fisher are part of the cast.

enchanted is led by Rachel Zegler, the star of Love without barriers, as Princess Ellian, a young royal who embarks on a daring journey to save her family and kingdom. She must embark on her own adventure after a mysterious spell turns them into monsters and threatens to cover Lumbria in darkness forever.

In this story, Kidman and Bardem again play a married couple, Ellsmere and Solon, who are Ellian’s mother and father. Queen Ellsmere is kind and loyal, but hyper-precise; and King Solon, boastful, but with a big heart.

Lithgow, meanwhile, is Minister Bolinar, and Lewis plays Minister Nazara Prone, both royal advisors to the princess. In the story, Ellian searches for the Oracles of the Sun and the Moon (Lane and De Shields) to break the spell on his parents and his kingdom. During his journey, he meets a young nomad named Callan (Fisher).

Vicky Jenson, the director of Shrekreturns to directing this animated film with a screenplay by Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin and Linda Woolverton.

Alan Menken, best known for creating Disney classics such as At the bottom of the sea, be our guest Y An ideal worldis the one who takes care of the songs and music of enchanted, along with Glenn Slater, who writes the lyrics. For his part, Chris Montan is the executive music producer. John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and David Lipman, in turn, will produce for Skydance Animation.

still husband and wife

With their participation in this film, Kidman and Bardem will repeat their roles as husband and wife, albeit now in an animated version. In Being the Ricardosset in the 1950s, it had two real characters in charge: the famous American comedian Lucille Ball and her husband, the Cuban Desi Arnaz.

Being the Ricardos he centered his storyline for a whole week of recording the hit TV show I love Luciawhich was all the rage every Monday night, with millions of viewers mesmerized by the couple’s humor, mostly the actress.

In the week of Sorkin’s film, that world of fame and success begins to shake when a radio reporter assures from his show that the comedian was affiliated with the Communist Party.

On the other hand, Ball was pregnant at the time, and the fictional and real couple wanted to include the pregnancy in the series, which the producers flatly rejected.

In her portrayal of Lucille Ball, Kidman also showed the fundamental intervention that the actress had in the series, contributing with lines, changing scenes and giving her opinion on the direction, even if the machismo of the time did not give her enough. space to show all his talent.

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