The actress and director has a new documentary about the famous couple.
In her documentary directorial debut, Poehler explores the unlikely partnership of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Featuring interviews with the likes of Norman Lear, Carol Burnett and Bette Midler, plus never-before-seen audio tapes that were discovered by the couple’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, the new documentary offers an intimate look at two trailblazers whose lives remained inextricably connected until the very end.
I was approached by Ron Howard and the gang at [the production company] Imagine [Entertainment] about directing, and I just thought, I was so grateful that I was working on a doc like this during a pandemic, not only because it allowed me a lot of time to work and do homework and do research and get things ready, but also I just. I was around comedy all the time. We all did that as a nation anyway. We all went back to the TV shows that we loved when we were scared and things were unsure, so it was great to be able to do that on this project.
Lucy and Desi’s stories have been told many times across various mediums, but you opted to build a documentary around their love story. What were some of the biggest challenges that you and the rest of your producing team faced while crafting this piece? There’s a moment in the film where our interviewer was asking Lucy about her miscarriage, and it, to me, sums up so much of what women were dealing with at that time. The interviewer asks her,"Do you think because you were working all the time and doing vaudeville that you lost the baby?" And Lucy just kind of pauses and says,"I don’t know.
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