LOVE STORY
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- By AC REMLER
In his latest limited series, Love Story, Ryan Murphy turns his lens toward one of America’s most photographed couples: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. For anyone conscious during the 90s era, we know what happens after the couple boards the ill-fated flight piloted by John Jr. to Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. On the tarmac, Carolyn and John appear to be fighting but then make up just before climbing into the single-engine private plane along with Bessette-Kennedy’s sister, Lauren. This foretelling of their tragic demise is where the series begins, but then pans back to the very beginning. Executive produced by Murphy (American Horror Story), and directed by Connor Hines, the series takes place in Manhattan. We see JFK Jr. famously riding his bike through the city streets and Carolyn in her Greenwich Village studio apartment.
Kennedy, portrayed by Canadian actor and former model Paul Anthony Kelly, was the public’s prince—political royalty, scrutinized by the press over passing the New York Bar which took him three attempts, and then for stepping out from his family’s shadow by launching the highly stylized magazine, George. Bessette-Kennedy, played by Sarah Pidgeon (I Know What You Did Last Summer) by contrast, is more guarded, a Calvin Klein publicist wary of celebrity even as she becomes one.
Love Story also stars Naomi Watts as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy and Dree Hemingway as Daryl Hannah.
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