Aaron Sorkin – you bought quite a lot of explaining to do.
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of the late Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, is getting candid on the director’s 2021 movie “Being the Ricardos.”
The 73-year-old nonetheless has a bone to choose about among the plotlines within the movie regardless of her and her youthful brother, Desi Arnaz Jr., serving as government producers on the Prime Video challenge that starred Nicole Kidman as the long-lasting Lucille and Javier Bardem as Desi.
“I tried to work on it and correct the incorrect parts, especially [my mother’s] relationship with the writers,” Lucie mentioned whereas at a screening of the 1993 particular “Lucy & Desi Home Movies” on Thursday. “Totally wrong, right? She adored those people. They got along so well; none of that backstabbing, crazy, insulting stuff.”
She mentioned the storyline was “such a crock of poop” and “so wrong.”
Lucie had an drawback with how the connection between Vivian Vance and William Frawley, who performed Ethel and Fred on “I Love Lucy,” was portrayed. In her phrases, the stress was “overly done.”
“You can’t talk to Aaron. He’s Aaron Sorkin,” Lucie mentioned about making an attempt to talk with the director over inaccuracies.
The actress famous that Sorkin instructed her he can be open to “meaningful consultation” however ended up responding, “‘Well, what do you know? You were 15 months old.’”
Keith Thibodeaux, who performed Little Ricky, the son of Lucy and Arnaz’s Ricky Ricardo on “I Love Lucy,” was additionally on the panel, telling the viewers about Sorkin’s film, “It’s well done and all that, I just didn’t get it.”
The Put up reached out to a rep for Sorkin for remark.
“Being the Ricardos” was nicely obtained by audiences and critics, incomes three Academy Award nods, with each Kidman, 57, and Bardem, 56, garnering finest actor nominations.
In 2021, Lucie instructed Palm Springs Life that the “Babygirl” star was “extremely classy and first rate,” including the solid had been all “really great performers.”
“Nicole did a spectacular job,” she gushed. “What she did was astounding. She’s got such poise and class.”
Nevertheless, on the identical time, Lucie doubled down, stating that she noticed “certain scenes” of the movie that she “wished” Sorkin hadn’t included.
Lucie famous: “I couldn’t get my way and have them taken out, but they weren’t accurate. And I thought, ‘That shouldn’t be in there, because that never happened. That’s not true.’”
“And it’s not just theatrical license, it just wasn’t true,” she continued. “And the day they shot the scene, the sprinklers went off on the set and destroyed the whole set.”
That very same yr, Kidman instructed NPR, “So there was the ‘I Love Lucy’ present, and I simply thought, nicely, if I can create actually a carbon copy of her within the present the place I appear like her, I transfer like her, I sound like her, all of these issues — and I actually studied that for months, like watching it, rewinding, beginning once more, getting the timing, engaged on it, engaged on it, engaged on the sounds with my dialect coach.
“If that can be accurate, that then gives me the license to do Lucille Ball, as Aaron said, with the sexuality, with messy hair, with all the things that do not make you go, oh, right, that looks exactly like her. There’s a feeling of her, but there’s a human being here.”
A yr later, Bardem instructed Those that he may really feel Arnaz’s spirit on set.
“When you play a character like him, you are invoking his spirit and essence, and you have to be respectful with that,” he defined. “Every time I would come back from the shoot, I would talk to him. I would look at the stars and let him know how the day went. And I would ask for his blessing and permission to go for the next day.”
