Caroline Kennedy acquired an excellent snicker out of Grace Gummer’s portrayal of her youthful self in Ryan Murphy’s “Love Story:,” Kennedy’s son, Jack Schlossberg, mentioned on Wednesday.
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Chatting with Katie Couric on her podcast “Subsequent Query with Katie Couric,” Schlossberg recalled displaying Kennedy clips of Gummer’s efficiency within the present, though neither watched all 9 episodes of the FX miniseries.
“Love Story” adopted the lives, marriage and loss of life of Kennedy’s brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., and his spouse, Carolyn Bessette. Its finale aired on March 26.
Couric’s interview with Schlossberg centered primarily on his personal political prospects as he runs for the U.S. Home of Representatives in New York, however she requested the potential congressman his ideas on the present as a result of he has been outspoken about it because it started airing in February.
“My concern is with, you already know, we have now a number of severe issues going through our nation and my household. We’re not simply celebrities. We’re not simply icons. These are public servants,” Schlossberg defined.
He continued: “They’re public servants who have been duly elected. And my uncle John did rather a lot to attempt to advance, you already know, the causes of progress in his time, civil rights.”
Schlossberg described his uncle as “a really severe particular person,” who additionally labored for the District Lawyer’s workplace. The present labored to “fictionalize and to sensationalize his romantic life with out giving any credence to severe issues that he did,” Schlossberg mentioned.
Regardless of that, he and his mother have been “laughing so exhausting,” at a clip of Gummer portraying Kennedy, Schlossberg mentioned.
Within the clip, “the particular person’s freaking out and we’re simply laughing so exhausting, as if that is how my mother acts,” he mentioned.
Couric famous that his mother and father — Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg — weren’t portrayed notably positively within the present.
Schlossberg, in response, known as his mom and father “the 2 nicest, most dignified, non-public folks in the entire world who do nothing however assist others.”
Schlossberg made it clear that he took no concern with those that preferred and loved the TV present, however cautioned them to do not forget that “it is likely to be entertaining, however it’s fiction.”
“I am actually pleased with the particular person and household that I come from, as a result of our household’s legacy is of public servants and standing up for individuals who have been marginalized, and utilizing politics to attempt to encourage folks to consider of their nation and to battle for what they consider in,” he mentioned.
Schlossberg is not the primary particular person linked to John F. Kennedy Jr. to talk out towards the present.
Actress Daryl Hannah, who dated JFK Jr. earlier than he met Bessette, penned an essay within the New York Occasions accusing “Love Story” of portraying her as “irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate.”
Hannah mentioned within the essay that the model of her within the present is not “even a remotely correct illustration of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John.”
