Instead, users attempted to correct her, saying the term was actually inspired by the 1944 film “Gaslight.” Author Roxane Gay sparked debate on Twitter when she complained that Lucille Ball - played by Nicole Kidman, 54 - used the term “gaslight” in Amazon’s new film “Being the Ricardos.” Kidman plays Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos,” a new, Amazon-made film.
How did that get through?” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet, which has since amassed more than 1,300 replies and nearly 10,000 retweets.īut many weren’t in support. “There is no way she would have said that in the 1950s. Roxane Gay sparked controversy on Twitter after criticizing Nicole Kidman’s use of the term “gaslight” when playing Lucille Ball. Gay, known for her best-selling book “ The Bad Feminist,” seemed to claim that the term wasn’t used in the 1950s when the movie was set.
Has the term “gaslight” itself been gaslit?įeminist author Roxane Gay took to Twitter to complain that Lucille Ball - played by Nicole Kidman, 54 - uses the term “gaslight” in Amazon’s new film “ Being the Ricardos.”
