Daryl Hannah and the trope of the difficult ex-girlfriend
The portrayal of JFK Jr’s ex in Love Story is misogyny at its worst, says Rebecca Cope Source link
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Daryl Hannah slams Ryan Murphy’s ‘tragedy-exploiting’ show Love Story
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Daryl Hannah has broken her silence on her portrayal in Ryan Murphy’s new series. Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette follows the whirlwind romance and high-profile relationship between the attorney and his publicist wife before their tragic deaths in 1999. Actor and activist Hannah, who was in an on-and-off relationship with Kennedy for about five years until 1994, has remained famously discreet about the relationship in the decades following his death. However, in a scathing guest essay for The New York Times, Hannah slammed Murphy’s characterization of her in Love Story, saying it “is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John. “Storytelling requires tension. It often requires an obstacle. But a real, living person is not a narrative device,” she wrote, suggesting that tearing down one woman to uplift …
Madonna, Annette, Daryl: All the celeb characters in ‘Love Story’
There are many things to love about the new FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette; the performances by Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon as the doomed couple, the carefully curated early ’90s soundtrack, and the respectful exploration of celebrity, love, and societal expectations. Also worthy of adulation is the series’ devotion to recreating 1990s glamour, from the sleek New York offices of Calvin Klein — where Bessette worked before marrying Kennedy — to the chic models and movie stars with whom both Kennedy and Bessette interact. Show creator Connor Hines (and, ok, executive producer Ryan Murphy, too) deserves credit for his accuracy to the time period, employing spot-on references to ’90s phenomenons like Heather Locklear and Brad Pitt. Other celebrities featured on Love Story are full-fledged characters who drive the narrative forward, including Daryl Hannah, Kate Moss, and Annette Bening. We’ve compiled the most notable celebrity characters and mentions below, leaving out others mentioned only briefly, like Jason Priestley, Keanu Reeves, Michael Jackson, and Saddam Hussein (!). We’re also …
Dree Hemingway Wrote Daryl Hannah Before Playing Her
Nina Jacobson has a rule for producing content that features characters inspired by real life subjects. “Generally speaking, we don’t engage with the people who are public figures, because you end up either feeling obligated to honor something that they ask you, ‘Please portray me this way, but not that way,’ or you feel that, that you’re having competing versions,” the veteran producer just told The Hollywood Reporter during an interview about her latest project, Ryan Murphy and Connor Hines’ Love Story. “When you take more of a research posture as opposed to a personal interview position, we have found that you get a more dimensional view, even though you are missing the chance to talk to the people themselves.” The FX series, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, digs deep into the lore of the iconic ’90s power couple and features many real life characters including members of the Kennedy clan like Caroline, Jackie and Ted to boldfaced names like Calvin Klein, Michael Bergin and onetime JFK Jr. girlfriend Daryl Hannah, …
‘Love Story’: Inside JFK Jr. and Daryl Hannah’s Tumultuous Relationship
Love Story, which premiered on February 12, dives headfirst into the courtship and eventual marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. But before JFK and Jackie O’s son fell for a mysterious Calvin Klein PR maven, he was entangled in another, high-profile, and highly volatile relationship with a beautiful blonde: movie star Daryl Hannah. According to People, America’s prince and the Blade Runner actor first met in the early 1980s, when their families were both vacationing in the Caribbean on the isle of St. Martin. Years later, in 1988, the pair had another fateful meeting when Kennedy’s aunt, Lee Radziwill, married director Herbert Ross. Ross had recently directed Hannah in Steel Magnolias, set to come out the following year. That chance reencounter kicked off one of the most tumultuous and talked-about relationships of the late 1980s and early 1990s. John F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah photographed in New York City on June 17, 1994.Shutterstock When they began dating, Kennedy was in the midst of completing his law degree at NYU—and already a …