Whereas the Ryan Murphy-produced and Connor Hines-created FX anthology sequence “Love Story” has punctured the pop cultural consciousness with its first providing“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette,” at the very least one of many very actual folks it chronicles has loads to say about simply how true the entire thing is. (In a phrase: not.)
In a startling new op-ed within the New York Occasionsactress and philanthropist Daryl Hannah takes the FX sequence to activity for its inaccurate portrayal of her. Hannah famously dated Kennedy earlier than he met Bessette, and Hannah is performed within the present by Dree Hemingway in a recurring position.
“The character ‘Daryl Hannah’ portrayed within the sequence is just not even a remotely correct illustration of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John,” Hannah wrote within the piece, revealed on Friday morning. “The actions and behaviors attributed to me are 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. I’ve by no means planted any story within the press. I by no means in contrast Jacqueline Onassis’ loss of life to a canine’s.”
Hannah continues, “It’s appalling to me that I even must defend myself towards a tv present. These should not artistic gildings of persona. They’re assertions about conduct — and they’re false.”
Early opinions of the sequence, together with ours from Ben Traversidentified among the extra galling characterizations of Hannah throughout the present. Travers wrote in his evaluate that Hannah “may win a defamation case based mostly on how a lot this present hates her.”
For Hannah, the real-world fallout has already been intense. She wrote, “When so many individuals watch a dramatization that makes use of an actual identify, real-life penalties observe. Within the weeks because the sequence aired, I’ve acquired many hostile and even threatening messages from viewers who appear to consider the portrayal is factual. When leisure borrows an actual individual’s identify, it could completely impression her fame.”
Within the op-ed, Hannah additionally cautioned towards viewers believing every little thing they see on their screens, noting that “the Kennedy household can also be notoriously personal, and I’ve at all times honored their proper to privateness. Know that the majority (if not all) of these claiming to have any intimate data of our private lives are self-serving sensationalists buying and selling in gossip, innuendo and hypothesis.”
You’ll be able to learn Hannah’s full op-ed proper right here.