Overview
- Following Thursday’s finale of FX’s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, executive producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson addressed criticism in new interviews.
- Simpson said the series set out to tell “John and Carolyn’s story,” adding that the team approached every portrayal with empathy and used a legal review that he described as very rigorous.
- Daryl Hannah, depicted in the show during her past relationship with Kennedy, wrote in the New York Times that the version of “Daryl Hannah” on screen is not accurate and said viewers have sent her hostile messages since the episodes aired.
- Dree Hemingway, who plays Hannah, said she wrote to the actress before filming and did not hear back, and she stressed that the show blends sourced material with fictionalized private moments.
- Viewers also split on Naomi Watts’s turn as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and the show’s reception has renewed debate over how recent real lives are dramatized for TV on platforms like Hulu and Disney+.