Lucille Ball’s daughter says she tried and failed to get scenes that ‘never happened’ removed from the upcoming biopic about her mom

• Lucille Ball's daughter Lucie Arnaz says some "Being the Ricardos" scenes "never happened."
• Arnaz visited the upcoming Aaron Sorkin movie's set for two days while they filmed flashbacks.
• Despite her issues with the untrue scenes, Arnaz called Nicole Kidman's performance "astounding."
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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's daughter Lucie Arnaz recently told Palm Springs Life that there are scenes in the upcoming Aaron Sorkin biopic about her parents' lives, "Being the Ricardos," that she wishes remained on the cutting room floor.

"I couldn't get my way and have them taken out, but they weren't accurate," said Arnaz, who serves as the chief creative officer of Desilu, Too, the company that manages her parents' estate.

Biopics are not usually tethered to the whole truth. But Arnaz said that her issues with certain scenes in the film, which will star Nicole Kidman as Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, go beyond that. "And it's not just theatrical license, it just wasn't true," Arnaz said in the interview.

She recalled visiting the set one day and watching the cast film a scene, which she did not describe in detail: "I thought, 'That shouldn't be in there, because that never happened. That's not true.'"

Arnaz revealed that "Being the Ricardos" is primarily set during a week of rehearsals for one of her mother and father's shows, with some scenes at Ball and Desi Arnaz's home in Chatsworth, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Flashbacks will also give viewers a glimpse into Ball's life before becoming a comedic icon.

Although Sorkin has taken some liberties with her parents' story that Arnaz does not agree with, she does like what she's seen of the film during her two days visiting set, saying the director "treated my mother and my father really well."

"What I saw was extraordinarily classy and first rate. The people that he has cast are just really great performers," she added.

One of the "great performers" Arnaz refers to specifically is Kidman, who Arnaz said "did a spectacular job" playing her mother. Arnaz had visited the set while they were filming the flashback scenes depicting Ball's life before fame in the '30 and '40s, a time when the sitcom star was a "trifle different," according to her daughter.

"Boy, what she did was astounding. She's got such poise and class," Arnaz said of Kidman's performance.