The creator of FX’s Love Story has no regrets about not consulting the Kennedys earlier than making John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette‘s romance the main target of the brand new scripted FX sequence.
“As a author, it’s extra wholesome and efficient to have a ways from the subject material,” EP Connor Hines advised Selection on Friday, February 13, following the present’s premiere.
Regardless of dealing with some backlash, Hines most well-liked being somewhat faraway from JFK Jr. and Bessette’s household.
“It lets you be much more goal in the way you method the fabric, vs. while you’re speaking to folks personally, you’re feeling a way of duty of relaying precisely what they’re telling you as a result of they’ve given you their time,” he famous. “It’s an extremely giant household as properly. So when you have been to speak about consulting them, the place would you even start?”
FX’s Love Story brings John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette‘s tragic romance to life — however how does the solid examine to their real-life counterparts? Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, which premiered Thursday, February 12, is a restricted sequence that explores the “plain chemistry, whirlwind courtship and high-profile marriage of (…)
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette premiered Thursday, February 12, and explores the “plain chemistry, whirlwind courtship and high-profile marriage of one of the crucial iconic {couples} of the twentieth century,” in line with the synopsis.
The FX sequence is the primary installment in Ryan Murphy’s Love Story 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 Kelly portrays JFK Jr. The couple died in 1999 after a airplane crash.
Earlier than Love Story even premiered, Murphy, 60, was criticized by the Kennedys for his plans to dramatize Bessette and JFK Jr.’s lives. In June 2025, Kennedy Jr.’s nephew Jack Schlossberg accused Murphy of “grotesque(ly)” profiting off his late uncle’s loss of life.
“Recently, my information feed has been stuffed with footage of my uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., a fantastic man,” Schlossberg, 33, wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “For these questioning whether or not his household was ever consulted, or has something to do with the brand new reveals being made about him, the reply is not any. And there’s actually not a lot we are able to do.”
Ryan Murphy has discovered success adapting true crime tales and high-profile occasions, which regularly leads to backlash from the themes of his reveals. Murphy’s sprawling TV universe began out with reveals corresponding to Nip/Tuck, Glee and American Horror Story. Because the producer continued to search out success, he expanded by taking over tasks that highlighted actual (…)
Schlossberg continued: “For that matter, (JFK Jr. is) thought-about a public determine, so there’s not a lot we are able to do. I hope these making these reveals about him take critically what he stood for in his life, all that he achieved in it. And that they donate among the income (that) they’re making.”
In response, Murphy referred to as out the “inflammatory” criticismparticularly contemplating it got here earlier than the present was launched.
“I assumed it was an odd option to be mad about your relative that you simply actually don’t keep in mind,” Murphy mentioned on Gavin Newsom’s “This Is Gavin Newsom” podcast in July 2025. “The times of civil discourse are over, and it’s very onerous. And also you type of both get into the muck otherwise you try to rise above it.”
That very same month, Murphy elaborated on Schlossberg’s suggestions. “I additionally like Jack’s Instagram when he simply lip syncs to ’90s lady teams stuff. I need extra of that,” he advised Selection. “However I believe it could be actually onerous in case your family are all the time within the media.”
New episodes of Love Story air Thursdays on Hulu.