Jamie Lee Curtis is throwing her help behind Daryl Hannah amid her criticism of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story.
Posting by way of her Instagram on Friday, March 6, Curtis, 67, shared screenshots of The New York Occasions essay that Hannah, 65, wrote. Within the opinion piece, Hannah criticized the “unfaithful” portrayal of her character and her relationship with the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
Curtis, who labored with Murphy on the TV sequence Scream Queens from 2015 to 2016, supported Hannah’s feedback by captioning her submit, “IMPORTANT.”
Hannah, who dated JFK Jr. for 5 years within the ‘80s, took intention on the FX manufacturing within the scathing piece.
“I’ve lengthy believed that partaking with distortion typically amplifies it,” Hannah wrote. “However a latest tragedy-exploiting tv sequence about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette incorporates a character utilizing my identify and presents her as me. The selection to painting her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.”
Hannah, who’s performed by Dr. Hemingway on the present, additionally slammed the producers for utilizing “textbook misogyny to tear down one girl with a view to construct up one other” because the fictionalized sequence adopted the love story between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
The actress went on to make clear the “actions and behaviors attributed” to her, which she described as “unfaithful.”
Daryl Hannah and JFK Jr.
(Picture by Mitchell Gerber/Corbis/VCG by way of Getty Photographs)“I’ve by no means used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled events. I’ve by no means pressured anybody into marriage. I’ve by no means desecrated any household heirloom or intruded upon anybody’s non-public memorial,” she continued. “I by no means in contrast Jacqueline Onassis’ dying to a canine’s. It’s appalling to me that I even must defend myself in opposition to a tv present. These should not inventive gildings of persona. They’re assertions about conduct — and they’re false.”
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is the primary installment in Murphy’s newest anthology and is impressed by Elizabeth Beller’s e-book As soon as Upon a Time: The Fascinating Lifetime of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Sarah Pidgeon performs Bessette, whereas Paul Anthony Kelly portrays JFK Jr.
In the meantime, Murphy and Curtis appeared to have a strong working relationship after they collaborated on Scream Queens a decade in the past.
In July 2015, Murphy mentioned Scream Queens was a homage to Curtis, who’s famend for iconic roles in horror motion pictures, together with the Halloween franchise.
“After we had been writing the pilot of this, I requested to satisfy Jamie Lee, who I had cherished perpetually,” Murphy mentioned, per the Los Angeles Occasions. “After they met he instructed her, ‘Look in the event you don’t do that present we’re not going to do it.’”
He added, “And I meant it.”