"There is this version of the way people in general approach women in art ... which is that they're just naturally good at things, like ... they fell into a patch of clover and they're just like, how lucky and natural," Amy said.
Director of archives at the National Comedy Center's Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, Laura LaPlaca, and Journey Gunderson, the executive director of the center, are featured in Lucy and Desi. They speak of how Lucy's comedic abilities, contrary to how they may appear, required a lot of dedicated work.
"[Laura and Journey] ... kept perspective about where [Desi and Lucy] were in time, and also how Lucy herself did not consider herself a typically naturally funny person, so she worked really, really hard at it. Music, comedy, those are disciplines where ... if they're done right, they seem easy to do," Amy added.