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"He's taking some theatrical license and sort of cramming a couple of true events that did happen, they just didn't happen at the same time." Aaron Sorkin admitted that while the three points of friction between Lucy and Desi in the film are historically true, he took creative license by condensing them into a single week in the movie.

“I didn't know any of this." While the movie explores a chaotic time in Ball’s career and her relationship with her then-husband, who died in 1986, Kidman made sure the film also paid tribute to the comedy icon, who passed away in 1989 after suffering from an aneurysm. They "said the public wouldn't believe I was married to Desi," Lucille Ball later recalled.

Baffled by Lucy becoming a target of the government, a person in the movie asks incredulously, "Lucille Ball is a threat to the American way of life?"

"After our baby was born, I received thirty thousand congratulatory telegrams and letters," she said. "No one has to impersonate Lucy Ricardo [or do] any of the silly things. It’s very deep, actually.” Ball and Arnaz tied the knot in 1940 before going on to star in the legendary series, which ran from 1951 to 1957. Senator Joseph McCarthy led a controversial campaign to target alleged communists both in government and other institutions, including Hollywood.

By the second day of filming, they had developed an instant connection with one another and eloped later that same year.

Lucy and Desi met in 1940 on the set of the film Too Many Girls. It's the story of Lucille Ball, my actual mother—not Lucy Ricardo—and her husband, Desi Arnaz, my dad—not Ricky Ricardo."

Lucie, who is an executive producer on the project along with her brother, Desi Arnaz Jr., told Palm Springs Life in August that she thought Sorkin “treated my mother and my father really well” in his writing, adding, “I think they are accurate composites of these people.

He wrote in his memoir that he knew of no other country where "a sixteen-year-old kid, broke and unable to speak the language," could rise up and reach the level of success that he had.