In her own words,Lucille Ballwas “madly in love” with Desi Arnaz.TheI Love Lucypower couple get the documentary treatment from Amy Poehler inLucy and Desi, which becomes available to stream on Amazon Prime Video on March 4. The film includes audio tapes of the stars that sheds new light on their romance and careers, all the way up to their final days together.Ball died in 1989 and Arnaz died in 1986. They had two children — daughter Lucie Arnaz, now 70, and son Desi Arnaz Jr., now 69 — before they got divorced in 1960 after 20 years of marriage.Their lives were recently explored in the filmBeing the Ricardos, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. In the Oscar-nominated film,Nicole Kidmanand Javier Bardem play the couple. Both scored Oscar nominations fortheir performances.Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.Archive Photos/GettyNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Lucy and Desi premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival last month. Poehler, 50, told reporters during a panel, according toVariety, “One of the goals was to use Lucy and Desi’s relationship as a structure in which to remind people that when you use terms like icons and legends … that there are people behind it. Lucy and Ricky were characters, and Lucy and Desi were people.““It was a wealth of material,” she added. “We didn’t have to reenact anything, everything was really recorded. They were, for many years, the most photographed couple and they lived incredibly public lives. … What their voices helped us do was to get more inside … their heads and really hear their POVs, because the external, the public, the outside was really, really covered.“Saturday Night LiveandParks and Recreationalum Poehler previously directed the Netflix comediesMoxieandWine Country.
In her own words,Lucille Ballwas “madly in love” with Desi Arnaz.
TheI Love Lucypower couple get the documentary treatment from Amy Poehler inLucy and Desi, which becomes available to stream on Amazon Prime Video on March 4. The film includes audio tapes of the stars that sheds new light on their romance and careers, all the way up to their final days together.
Ball died in 1989 and Arnaz died in 1986. They had two children — daughter Lucie Arnaz, now 70, and son Desi Arnaz Jr., now 69 — before they got divorced in 1960 after 20 years of marriage.
Their lives were recently explored in the filmBeing the Ricardos, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. In the Oscar-nominated film,Nicole Kidmanand Javier Bardem play the couple. Both scored Oscar nominations fortheir performances.
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.Archive Photos/Getty
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Lucy and Desi premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival last month. Poehler, 50, told reporters during a panel, according toVariety, “One of the goals was to use Lucy and Desi’s relationship as a structure in which to remind people that when you use terms like icons and legends … that there are people behind it. Lucy and Ricky were characters, and Lucy and Desi were people.”
“It was a wealth of material,” she added. “We didn’t have to reenact anything, everything was really recorded. They were, for many years, the most photographed couple and they lived incredibly public lives. … What their voices helped us do was to get more inside … their heads and really hear their POVs, because the external, the public, the outside was really, really covered.”
Saturday Night LiveandParks and Recreationalum Poehler previously directed the Netflix comediesMoxieandWine Country.
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