Jamie Lee Curtis is throwing her support behind Daryl Hannah amid her criticism of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story.
Posting via her Instagram on Friday, March 6, Curtis, 67, shared screenshots of The New York Times essay that Hannah, 65, wrote. In the opinion piece, Hannah criticized the “untrue” portrayal of her character and her relationship with the late John F. Kennedy Jr.
Curtis, who worked with Murphy on the TV series Scream Queens from 2015 to 2016, supported Hannah’s comments by captioning her post, “IMPORTANT.”
Hannah, who dated JFK Jr. for five years in the ‘80s, took aim at the FX production in the scathing piece.
“I have long believed that engaging with distortion often amplifies it,” Hannah wrote. “But a recent tragedy-exploiting television series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette features a character using my name and presents her as me. The choice to portray her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.”
Hannah, who is played by Dree Hemingway on the show, also slammed the producers for using “textbook misogyny to tear down one woman in order to build up another” as the fictionalized series followed the love story between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
The actress went on to clarify the “actions and behaviors attributed” to her, which she described as “untrue.”
“I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties. I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial,” she continued. “I never compared Jacqueline Onassis’ death to a dog’s. It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show. These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false.”
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is the first installment in Murphy’s latest anthology and is inspired by Elizabeth Beller’s book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Sarah Pidgeon plays Bessette, while Paul Anthony Kelly portrays JFK Jr.
Meanwhile, Murphy and Curtis appeared to have a solid working relationship when they collaborated on Scream Queens a decade ago.
In July 2015, Murphy said Scream Queens was a homage to Curtis, who is renowned for iconic roles in horror movies, including the Halloween franchise.
“When we were writing the pilot of this, I asked to meet Jamie Lee, who I had loved forever,” Murphy said, per the Los Angeles Times. “When they met he told her, ‘Look if you don’t do this show we’re not going to do it.’”
He added, “And I meant it.”
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