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Sarah Pidgeon discusses her role as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in the upcoming series 'Love Story.' The article explores Pidgeon's preparation, the public's reaction to the project, and her approach to portraying the iconic figure. It highlights her efforts to go beyond the surface image.
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- Sarah Pidgeon discusses her role as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in the upcoming series 'Love Story.' The article explores Pidgeon's preparation, the public's reaction to the project, and her approach to portraying the iconic figure. It highlights her efforts to go beyond the surface image.
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Kennedy Jr., the subjects of the first season of \u201cLove Story,\u201d an anthology series premiering Thursday on FX and Hulu. The backlash to the post was swift and bratty, with style writers and even Bessette-Kennedy\u2019s own colorist deriding the look as cheap, the Temu version of high fashion. This was not the kind of tragic Murphy had in mind. (The post has since been deleted.)Pidgeon, 29, tried to stay off the internet in those days. The role is the most prominent of her career, and she didn\u2019t want the chatter to cow her or color her performance. (For what it\u2019s worth, the hair color was subsequently fixed.)Image\u201cLove Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette,\u201d starring Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon as the title couple, premieres on Thursday on FX and Hulu.Credit...FXStill, the criticism reached her. She had known already that people had strong opinions about the couple, Bessette-Kennedy in particular, a cool blonde and proto-influencer who died young. Now she understood that these same people would have passionate feelings about every aspect of her performance. This made the part both a thrilling opportunity and a weighty responsibility.Through her research and preparation, Pidgeon came to care deeply for the woman she imagined Bessette-Kennedy to have been. \u201cThere\u2019s so much that\u2019s so admirable,\u201d Pidgeon said. \u201cI wanted to fiercely advocate for that interpretation of her, that she\u2019s more than just her clothes.\u201dPidgeon, casually dressed in a black sweater and dark jeans, was speaking on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon at the start of February. She had asked to meet at a Manhattan teahouse, a mellow, unglamorous space that promised \u201cmindful living\u201d through the medium of tea. For Pidgeon, this entailed an omakase presentation of a flower tea, a milky oolong, a gardenia green tea and a tea scented with loquat blossoms. Two weeks out from a premiere that seemed likely to intensify an already flourishing career, mellow was probably welcome.ImagePidgeon was nominated for a Tony for her performance in \u201cStereophonic\u201d on Broadway. But \u201cLove Story\u201d brings the most prominent role of her career.Is Pidgeon mellow? Not exactly. A former theater kid and a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the conservatory program at Carnegie Mellon, she is affable and animated but also practical. Just after we sat down, she pulled over a space heater, plugging it in at our feet.\u201cWe can just cook ourselves a little bit,\u201d she said.After chatting with her for a couple of hours, I didn\u2019t feel that I knew her, but that elusiveness is part of her appeal. Daniel Aukin, who directed Pidgeon in the Broadway play \u201cStereophonic,\u201d described her as \u201creally protean.\u201d\u201cShe\u2019s so constantly surprising that I don\u2019t put anything past her,\u201d he said.Pidgeon has always taken acting seriously. She remembers playing a preschool Virgin Mary in a church pageant and tattling on her Joseph for his mishandling of the prop baby. She liked everything about theater \u2014 the community, the dress-up, the mild stage fright \u2014 and so she kept doing it.She snagged an agent right out of college and was cast a few months later in her first series, as a marooned teen in the Amazon series \u201cThe Wilds.\u201d That led to a role as the younger version of Kathryn Hahn\u2019s Clare in the Hulu limited series \u201cTiny Beautiful Things.\u201dHer next major role brought her back to the stage. In David Adjmi\u2019s play \u201cStereophonic,\u201d which began at Playwrights Horizons before transferring to Broadway, she played Diana, a singer in a Fleetwood Mac-adjacent band. Diana\u2019s commitment to her artistry, a commitment rimmed in self-doubt, felt personal to Pidgeon, who was nominated for a Tony.Brad Simpson, an executive producer of \u201cLove Story,\u201d saw her in the role. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen such vulnerability onstage,\u201d he said in a recent conversation, which made him receptive to her \u201cLove Story\u201d audition months later.ImagePidgeon wasn\u2019t trying to impersonate Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy exactly. \u201cMy face is my face,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was more exciting to me to bring an interpretation of this woman who had this strong essence.\u201dPidgeon was only a toddler when Bessette-Kennedy died in 1999 at age 33, when a plane piloted by her husband crashed into the ocean. She knew her the way that many younger millennials did, through paparazzi photos, which meant that Bessette-Kennedy remained mostly mysterious to her. So Pidgeon played that mystery in her auditions. Simpson and the other producers had anticipated an extensive search to find their Carolyn, but within minutes of Pidgeon\u2019s callback, the search was over. This was partly because of that slight remove.\u201cYou immediately feel like you know her but also feel like you can never truly get to know her,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cShe has a warmth but also a distance.\u201dThough a favorite of photographers, Bessette-Kennedy gave very few interviews in her lifetime, which makes her both overexposed and underknown. Elizabeth Beller, whose book \u201cOnce Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy\u201d is an inspiration for the series, spent years researching her. Those sidewalk photos, Beller wrote in an email, don\u2019t convey Bessette-Kennedy\u2019s enthusiasm and joie de vivre.\u201cShe was so different than the ice princess the media conveyed at the time,\u201d Beller said. \u201cThose very photographs that captured her style also flattened her into myth.\u201dPidgeon tried to go beyond the photos and the myth. Yes, the hair, makeup and wardrobe, much improved since those disastrous early test photos, meant that she was more able to step into Bessette-Kennedy\u2019s shoes. \u201cLiterally, in some Manolos,\u201d Pidgeon said. But she wasn\u2019t trying to mirror Bessette-Kennedy exactly.\u201cMy face is my face,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was more exciting to me to bring an interpretation of this woman who had this strong essence.\u201dImageShe held onto certain tangibles \u2014 Bessette-Kennedy\u2019s perfume, her brand of cigarettes. She also paid attention to how friends had described her \u2014 her spunk, her smarts, her intense eyes, her tendency to talk with her hands.While Pidgeon would rather not have gone through the outcry over the test photos and the subsequent paparazzi interest in the shoot, that helped with the performance, too, as a milder version of the scrutiny Bessette-Kennedy experienced.\u201cI recognize that I was filming a TV show and she was trying to exist, to walk her dog,\u201d Pidgeon said. \u201cBut I knew what it felt like for me to suddenly realize that I was being watched in that way.\u201dThat realization was mostly internal. Kelly, Pidgeon\u2019s co-star, rarely saw that stress affect her.\u201cShe\u2019s so talented, and she works hard for everything, but she is as cool as a cucumber,\u201d Kelly said.Pidgeon didn\u2019t have much time to metabolize the sudden internet infamy. The five-month shoot, which took the characters from courtship to death, moved quickly.\u201cI didn\u2019t have a moment to step back and assess,\u201d she said. \u201cI really had to just keep betting on myself and what my instincts were.\u201dShe was speaking in the days before the reviews and audience reactions, so she didn\u2019t yet know if that bet had paid off. The most Pidgeon would say about her performance and how well it captured the real Bessette-Kennedy was that she felt she had achieved an honorable compromise \u2014 \u201ca solid sort of negotiation\u201d \u2014 between the real woman and the show\u2019s character.Mostly she hoped that \u201cLove Story\u201d would supply an internal life for a fashion favorite, depicting Bessette-Kennedy as a woman who was more than an image in a glossy paparazzi photo. More, finally, than just her clothes.Alexis Soloski has written for The Times since 2006. 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What to WatchOscar Nominees: Where to Stream‘The Muppet Show’‘Solo Mio’‘Starman’‘Nadja’‘Melania’Last June, Ryan Murphy posted stills from what he captioned a camera test for a “romantic and tragic love story” to his Instagram account.The photos showed the actors Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly in costume as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., the subjects of the first season of “Love Story,” an anthology series premiering Thursday on FX and Hulu. The backlash to the post was swift and bratty, with style writers and even Bessette-Kennedy’s own colorist deriding the look as cheap, the Temu version of high fashion. This was not the kind of tragic Murphy had in mind. (The post has since been deleted.)Pidgeon, 29, tried to stay off the internet in those days. The role is the most prominent of her career, and she didn’t want the chatter to cow her or color her performance. (For what it’s worth, the hair color was subsequently fixed.)Image“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. &...
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Simplified: Ryan Murphy posted stills from a camera test to his Instagram account last June
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Simplified: Photos showed actors Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly in costume as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F Kennedy Jr
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Simplified: Backlash to post was swift and bratty
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Simplified: Pidgeon tried to stay off the internet in those days
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Simplified: Role is most prominent of her career
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Simplified: Hair color was subsequently fixed
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Simplified: People had strong opinions about couple Bessette-Kennedy in particular
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Simplified: Pidgeon came to care deeply for woman she imagined Bessette-Kennedy to have been
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Simplified: Pidgeon was nominated for Tony for performance in Stereophonic on Broadway
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Simplified: Love Story brings most prominent role of her career
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Simplified: She is affable and animated but also practical
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Simplified: She snagged agent right out of college and was cast in first series as marooned teen in The Wilds
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Simplified: That led to role as younger version of Kathryn Hahn’s Clare in Tiny Beautiful Things
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Simplified: In David Adjmi’s play Stereophonic she played Diana a singer in Fleetwood Mac-adjacent band
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Simplified: She was nominated for Tony
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Simplified: Simpson and producers had anticipated extensive search to find their Carolyn but search was over within minutes of Pidgeon’s callback
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Simplified: Elizabeth Beller spent years researching Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
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👤 Sarah Pidgeon 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-4c66-4072-962d-a0d38c71ee27Simplified: Pidgeon said her face is her face
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-8450-419e-8d56-a0a66cf0900aSimplified: Pidgeon paid attention to how friends described Bessette-Kennedy
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-a440-4f2e-88ae-1b4aa7e23130Simplified: Outcry over test photos and paparazzi interest helped with performance
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👤 Sarah Pidgeon 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-bd5b-4f3c-b478-061a74def36fSimplified: Pidgeon said she was filming a TV show while Bessette-Kennedy was trying to exist
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👤 Kelly 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-d6fa-42f5-93b7-ed77760427fbSimplified: Kelly said Pidgeon is talented and cool
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🆔 a1163773-ee7b-4e84-a223-83e69dde23ecSimplified: Five-month shoot took characters from courtship to death