Love Story actress Dr. Hemingway is reacting to Daryl Hannah’s scathing criticism of how she is portrayed within the FX drama.
“I respect her and it’s a delicate factor to play anyone, an actual individual,” Hemingway, who performs Hannah within the present, advised Leisure Tonight on the 2026 Vainness Truthful Oscar Occasion on Sunday, March 15.
She added, “I imply, all I can converse to is me as an actress, however I like her. I like her.”
The true Hannah, 65, not too long ago penned an essay for the New York Instances criticizing the drama’s depiction of her relationship with the late John F. Kennedy Jr. The primary season of Love Story — an anthology sequence from prolific tv producer Ryan Murphy — charts JFK Jr.’s relationship along with his spouse, Carolyn Bessette.
FX dramatized John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette’s tragic romance in Love Story, which sparked backlash for the way in which it was portrayed. Love Story, created by Ryan Murphy, stars Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette. The true-life couple have been collectively on and off between 1992 till their 1996 marriage ceremony. (…)
Hemingway, 38, performs Hannah in early episodes, depicting the actress as JFK Jr.’s earlier girlfriend earlier than assembly Bessette.
“I’ve lengthy believed that participating with distortion usually amplifies it,” Hannah, 65, wrote. “However a current tragedy-exploiting tv sequence about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette includes 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.”
“Storytelling requires pressure. It usually requires an impediment. However an actual, dwelling individual isn’t a story gadget,” she continued. “There’s additionally a gendered dimension to this pondering. Standard tradition has lengthy elevated sure ladies by portraying others as rivals, obstacles or villains. Isn’t it textbook misogyny to tear down one lady with a purpose to construct up one other?”
In line with the Splash and Kill Invoice actress, Love Story isn’t “remotely correct” in its “illustration of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John.”
Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly in Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.
FX/HuluHannah additionally known as out particular moments within the present that she described as “unfaithful.”
“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 personal memorial,” she wrote. “I by no means in contrast Jacqueline Onassis’ dying to a canine’s. It’s appalling to me that I even must defend myself towards a tv present. These should not inventive elaborations of character. They’re assertions about conduct — and they’re false.”
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In an interview with Nylon journal earlier in March, Hemingway mentioned she tried to achieve out to Hannah after she was solid within the position.
“It was actually only a love observe to her saying how a lot I admired her, how a lot I’ve admired her as an actress and a lady, previous to even being solid as Daryl,” Hemingway mentioned.
“(I wrote how) a lot I actually simply fell in love together with her as a human being. I watched interviews and that feeling of actually spending time with anyone you’ve by no means hung out with, however researching,” the actress added. “That was actually the observe, and simply not like ‘Hey, I need to meet you or discuss to you.’ Simply, like, ‘It was actually an honor of my lifetime to have the ability to painting you and analysis you.’”