Nicole Kidman is currently in production on Being the Ricardos, a biopic about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. In the highly anticipated film, Kidman portrays Ball, and Javier Bardem plays Arnaz. The daughter of the real Lucille Ball’s recently paid a two-day visit to the film’s set, and while the idea of an actress playing your mother may seem strange to some, she had nothing but positive things to say about Kidman.

“Nicole did a spectacular job,” Lucie said of the forthcoming biopic to The Palm Springs Life magazine.

“The two days that I watched, though, were both little flashbacks, so she was playing Lucy in the late ’30s and mid-’40s,” she went on. “She wasn’t Lucy of Lucy Ricardo fame yet, so it was a trifle different. And I know she meant it to be, so it could feel different. But boy, what she did was astounding. She’s got such poise and class.”

She went on to say about the upcoming picture, “There are no look-a-likes. I mean, nobody was cast because they look exactly like somebody. They were cast because they’re spectacular performers, actors, and they can capture the basic essence of what has been written in this script. And Aaron was adamant about that and thank God. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product.”

While exact plot elements for the biopic have mostly been kept under wraps, Lucie disclosed that a big portion of the drama takes place over the course of one week during the creation of her parents’ popular sitcom I Love Lucy in the 1950s.

Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball | CREDIT: ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY

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“It takes place, primarily, during rehearsals for one of the shows. There are a few scenes where they’re at their house in Chatsworth, before working, after working,” she said. “There are two or three short flashback scenes to her life before I Love Lucy, when she worked on the radio show, when she was trying to convince the network to hire dad.”

She also informed the magazine that Being the Ricardos included “certain scenes” that she “wished” Sorkin had left out.

“There are certain scenes that I wished hadn’t been in the feature film. I couldn’t get my way and have them taken out, but they weren’t accurate,” Arnaz said. “And I thought, ‘That shouldn’t be in there, because that never happened. That’s not true.’ And it’s not just theatrical license, it just wasn’t true. And the day they shot the scene, the sprinklers went off on the set and destroyed the whole set.”

Nicole will co-star with Javier Bardem in the next film written by Aaron Sorkin, author of The West Wing. “I’ve had to put in an enormous amount of time on Lucille Ball right now, because she has a very particular way of speaking,” the Nine Perfect Strangers actress told Variety of the role.

Lucie Arnaz praised Kidman’s choice in January, after some suggested that another actress might be more suited for the part.

“Here’s the deal. We are not doing a remake of ‘I Love Lucy.’ No one has to impersonate Lucy Ricardo, nor do the Vitameatavegamin routine or the chocolate factory routine or any of the silly things,” Arnaz said at the time in a Facebook video. “It’s the story of Lucille Ball, my actual mother, not Lucy Ricardo, and her husband, Dezi Arnaz, my dad, not Ricky Ricardo.”

Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jake Lacy, Clark Gregg, J.K. Simmons, and Nina Arianda also feature in Being the Ricardos.