But on Monday, October 13, the new series TV We Love shines a spotlight on the only living main cast member left from that iconic ensemble — Keith Thibodeaux, who played the Ricardos’ son, Little Ricky.
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That friendship came with its own complications. Desi Arnaz Jr. spent much of his life being mistaken for Little Ricky — a mix-up Thibodeaux remembers vividly.
The 74-year-old actor also says he was a born performer — quite literally.
“I started playing drums when I was like 2 years old on trash cans in my backyard in Lafayette, Louisiana,” he says. “At the audition for the I Love Lucy show, they were looking to expand the part of Little Ricky. I went to meet Lucy there in her glory, there she was in the flesh, and she looked at me and she said, ‘Well, he’s cute. But what does he do?’ and my dad said, ‘He plays the drums.’ So I started jamming on the drums… finally Desi himself came over, started playing with me, stood up after a while, laughed and said, ‘I think we found our Little Ricky.’”
“My dad said, ‘This is huge, this is a big deal,’ and here I am, four and a half years old, I was Little Ricky," Thibodeaux recalled.
“It’s a lot of pressure for a little kid. You did one take and that was it,” he says. “Lucy was very demanding of everybody being right on cue. Desi treated me really, really good. He’d teach us how to fish and ride horses and swim. I had a heart for him.”
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