📺 Daryl Hannah SLAMS Her Portrayal In 'Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette'

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
It's Jonesy Demanda's jam Nation.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is theft from the Daily Ours of Jimma Gillespie.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Fresh with an F one cold. That's what it's called.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The F one flu, the.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
F one Lurgie, I've got it. But we're not talking
about F one today. We're talking about another passion of mine,
which is the Kennedys. Because I don't know if you've
seen this new show. It's called Love Story. It's a
drama about Carolyn Bissett and JFK Junior's relationship. It's attracted
a lot of criticism from the people who are portrayed
in the show, who are of course still alive, like

(00:38):
actor Darryl Hannah. Now she data JFK Jr. On and
off throughout the eighties and nineties, and she's portrayed in
this series is honestly really annoying. I would be upset
if I was her too. She's sort of this villain
who's kind of portrayed as getting in the way of
the love story unfolding between Carolyn and JFK Jr. But

(01:00):
she has slammed the show. In an op ed for
The New York Times, I love when celebrities do this
tell us how you really feel. She said that it's
a tragedy exploiting series and that her character is portrayed
as misogynistic, false, and sensationalistic. I want to read you
the opening line of this piece because I think it's
just brilliant, she says. Jacqueline on Nassas once gave me

(01:22):
some wise advice. She told me that while tabloids, magazines,
and newspapers often sold ridiculous lies, they were nothing more
than birdcage lineup by the next day. At the time,
I found great comfort and consolation in those words, but
today they no longer hold true. In the digital age,
stories do not disappear, and lies live online forever. Daryl

(01:44):
Hanna is not the only one that slammed the show.
We've also heard from JFK's grandson, Jack Schlosberg. His mum
is Caroline Kennedy, of course JFK Junior's sister. He said
the family was never consulted for Love story, that it's
complete fit. He did an interview with CBS where he said,
speaking about Ryan Murphy, who's the executive producer of this show,

(02:06):
he's pretty controversial. You might know Ryan Murphy from shows
like O j Simpson Monster the Jeffrey Darmer story, and
he also did Monsters the Lyle and Eric Menendez story. Anyway,
Jack Schlosberg said, if you want to know someone who's
never met anyone in my family knows nothing about us,
talk to Ryan Murphy. The guy knows nothing about what
he's talking about, and he's making a ton of money

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on a grotesque display of someone else's life.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Because I haven't seen it, does it depict their love story? Like,
is it a negative telling of the story.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, this is where it's complicated. I think because I'm
actually loving the show. Whether or not it's accurate, I
think that it portrays a beautiful love story between Carolyn
Bissett and JFK. Junior. It portrays kind of very complicated
people and a very nuanced, complicated relationship between them.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
But I which it was, which it was. There were
photos that exist of them fighting in a part, him
throwing her engagement.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's the problem when you do these shows.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
You can't have people that are still alive. That's the
problem that these people aren't alive.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's Daryl Hannahs still a lot yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
But the families of the people who were deceased to
complain her too.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think Daryl Hannah's right to be upset. She does
kind of get portrayed as this party girl. She says
that she never did drugs and that that's completely false.
But one of the producers on the show, a guy
called Brad Simpson. He responded to some of the earlier
criticisms last month and he said basically that they wanted
to approach the story with love and kindness and that
we're trying to celebrate the life of Carolyn Bissett and

(03:34):
JFK Jr. So lots of opinions, but the show is
doing really well. It's broken a record for FX, the
production company. It racked up more than twenty five million
hours of viewing for its first five episodes.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I've seen across all the socials people are obsessed with
the fashions of the time. It's a big resurgence of
that nineties New York.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Feel beautiful people, beautiful clothes. You know who doesn't love
a bit of that?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
And a plane crash to boot Oh Brendan.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
The cherry on top.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
And thank you, am you, and thank you very nice. Okay,
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