Last week, it was reported by Deadline that the Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem were being eyed to star as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the upcoming biopic Being the Ricardos, which was written and will be directed by Aaron Sorkin.

All Hell immediately broke lose, with many social media users specifically suggesting other actresses for the part, and former “Will & Grace” star Debra Messing even campaigned for it herself. Now, however, Ball and Arnaz’s daughter Lucie Arnaz is telling fans to calm down, saying that the casting is “a done deal” and that she’s happy with who was chosen to play her parents. She also let fans know that this movie, which is set to be released by Amazon Studios, is not “a remake of I Love Lucy.”

“Nobody has to impersonate Lucy Ricardo nor do the Vitameatavegamin routine, or … any of the silly things. It’s the story of Lucille Ball, my actual mother, not Lucy Ricardo, and her husband, Desi Arnaz, my dad, not Ricky Ricardo,” Lucie explained to fans in a video posted to Facebook.

“There will be humor in the film, but it is a story of the two of them and how they met and what went right with finding the show, what went wrong, their relationship, their love affair,” she added. “Now, of course it’s going to have ‘I Love Lucy’ in it. As a matter of fact, Aaron Sorkin has set it on the stage of filming one week of rehearsal, rehearsing and filming the show. But all this other stuff takes place during that time.”

Not stopping there, Lucie doubled down to say that “very little of the show is actually I Love Lucy-type stuff,” and that fans won’t be disappointed.

“Aaron has done a wonderful job of bringing these characters to life, and it’s just a little … slice of life in their journey,” she said. “It’s not the whole story. It’s not a biopic from cradle to grave. It is a two-hour feature film about these two people and some of the remarkable things they lived through. So I hope I can set the record straight here, and just say, stop arguing about who should play her, ‘She doesn’t look like her, her nose isn’t the same, she isn’t as funny…'”

“Just trust us, it’s going to be a nice film, and p.s. the voting is over,” Lucie concluded. “I love all of you.”

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