Lucille Ball and Desi Arnazs daughter blasts Being the Ricardos storyline as a crock of poop

Aaron Sorkin – you got 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 film “Being the Ricardos.”The 73-year-old still has a bone to pick about some of the plotlines in the film despite her and her younger brother, Desi Arnaz Jr., serving as executive producers on the Prime Video project that starred Nicole Kidman as the iconic 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 said while at a screening of the 1993 special “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 said the storyline was “such a crock of poop” and “so wrong.”Lucie had an problem with how the relationship between Vivian Vance and William Frawley, who played Ethel and Fred on “I Love Lucy,” was portrayed.In her words, the tension was “overly done.”“You can’t talk to Aaron.

He’s Aaron Sorkin,” Lucie said about trying to speak with the director over inaccuracies.The actress noted that Sorkin told her he would be open to “meaningful consultation” but ended up responding, ” ‘Well, what do you know? You were 15 months old.'”Keith Thibodeaux, who played Little Ricky, the son of Lucy and Arnez’s Ricky Ricardo on “I Love Lucy,” was also on the panel, telling the audience about Sorkin’s movie, “It’s well done and all that, I just didn’t get it.”The Post reached out to a rep for Sorkin for comment.“Being the Ricardos” was well received by audiences and critics, earning three Academy Award nods, with both Kidman, 57, and Bardem, 56, garnering best actor nominations.

In 2021, Lucie told Palm Springs Life that the “Babygirl” star was “extremely classy and first rate,” adding the cast were all “really g...