At a screening of nan 1993 typical “Lucy & Desi Home Movies” connected nan Paramount Studios batch connected June 5, Lucie Arnaz sewage candid astir her feelings connected Aaron Sorkin’s 2021 film “Being nan Ricardos.” The movie, which followed Arnaz’s parents Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz during nan accumulation of nan seminal ‘50s bid “I Love Lucy,” garnered a mixed captious response — though Nicole Kidman earned praise and an Oscar information for her portrayal of Ball. Lucie Arnaz served arsenic an executive shaper connected nan project.

“I was involved, and I tried to activity connected it and correct nan incorrect parts, particularly her narration pinch nan writers,” Arnaz said in a video from nan June 5 event. “Totally wrong, right? She adored those people. They sewage on truthful well, nary of that backstabbing, crazy, insulting stuff. That was specified a crock of poop. It was truthful wrong.”

Arnaz besides said that nan hostility depicted betwixt Vivian Vance and William Frawley — known champion arsenic their “Lucy” characters Ethel and Fred — was “overly done.”

“But, you know, you can’t talk to Aaron. He’s Aaron Sorkin,” she explained, saying he would perceive successful what she referred to arsenic “meaningful consultation… But past he would say, ‘Well, what do you know? You were 15 months old.’”

Arnaz added that she was concerned astir putting her sanction connected thing that early generations whitethorn look backmost connected and see to beryllium nan truth. The sheet chat besides featured character Keith Thibodeaux, who portrayed nan Ricardos’ boy Little Ricky connected “I Love Lucy,” who besides had issues pinch nan Sorkin film.

“It’s good done and each that, I conscionable didn’t get it,” Thibodeaux said.

Arnaz did antecedently praised Kidman’s capacity arsenic her mother.

“Nicole did a spectacular job,” she told Paul Springs Life successful 2021. “Boy, what she did was astounding. She’s sewage specified poise and class.”

Sorkin told IndieWire successful 2021 that he built “Being nan Ricardos”  around Ball seeing nan bid arsenic a salve for her matrimony to Desi Arnaz.

“Desi wasn’t astir that much, he was touring pinch his orchestra,” Sorkin said. “Lucy had to beryllium successful L.A., she wanted her matrimony to work, she wanted a family. She wanted Desi to play her husband, which was not a crazy idea. She would spell retired and meet Desi and nan orchestra connected weekends; he’d telephone her up connected shape to do bits that nan writers had written and audiences loved it. There was logic to judge nan thought would work. ‘I Love Lucy’ exists to prevention nan marriage.”