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| | Daryl Hannah: 'Love Story' is full of inaccuracies about me & JFK Jr. | | Added 72 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ryan Murphy?s Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is now the most-streamed/watched show in FX?s history. The show has caused a huge boom in interest in all things John & Carolyn. People are so hyped about almost every part of the show, and we all have our fingers crossed that the show doesn?t screw up the final episodes. But? one thing was clear in the early episodes: Love Story?s writers and producers were doing Daryl Hannah dirty. Daryl and John had an off-and-on relationship for years, and there?s some evidence to suggest there was some overlap between the end of John and Daryl and the start of John and Carolyn. Love Story made it seem like Daryl was clinging to John, that she was desperate to marry him, and that she would bring her drugged-out friends to his New York loft. I wondered if Daryl would say something about how Love Story and Dree Hemingway portrayed her, and now Daryl has done so in a New York Times op-ed, ?How Can ?Love Story? Get Away With This?? An excerpt:
I have generally chosen not to respond to media coverage of me. I have long believed that engaging with distortion often amplifies it. 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.
In discussing the show, ?Love Story,? one of its producers explained: ?Given how much we?re rooting for John and Carolyn, Daryl Hannah occupies a space where she?s an adversary to what you want narratively in the story.?
Storytelling requires tension. It often requires an obstacle. But a real, living person is not a narrative device. There is also a gendered dimension to this thinking. Popular culture has long elevated certain women by portraying others as rivals, obstacles or villains. Isn?t it textbook misogyny to tear down one woman in order to build up another?
The character ?Daryl Hannah? portrayed in the series is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John. The actions and behaviors attributed to me are 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. I have never planted any story in the press. 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.
When so many people watch a dramatization that uses a real name, real-life consequences follow. In the weeks since the series aired, I have received many hostile and even threatening messages from viewers who seem to believe the portrayal is factual. When entertainment borrows a real person?s name, it can permanently impact her reputation.
[From The NY Times]
She also writes about how she?s valued privacy and discretion always, especially in recent years. Which is true, she does her work and doesn?t seek the spotlight for herself whatsoever. She?s also been remarkably discreet about John during and after their relationship and after his death. What Love Story did to her is not fair at all and I think Daryl is owed a public apology. I?d also like to say: it?s not Dree Hemingway?s fault. Dree plays the ?Daryl? character as written, and I could actually tell that Dree did a lot of work to try to play Daryl as authentically as possible (Dree?s voice work as Daryl is INCREDIBLE). The writers really fked up we would have been rooting for Carolyn anyway, but they chose the cheapest way to tell a false story of John and Daryl?s relationship.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Avalon Red, Colin Mason/Avalon, Starstock/Photoshot.
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| | Daryl Hannah was diagnosed as autistic as a kid, which led to 'debilitating shyness' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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There was a time when Daryl Hannah was the hottest thing around. That time, my children, was the ?80s. She did a quick succession of interesting hit movies like Splash, Roxanne, Wall Street, Steel Magnolias, and one of my favorite films of all time, Legal Eagles. This was around the same time that she was dating John F. Kennedy Jr. I think they even lived together in NYC for several years too, but Jackie Kennedy basically told John-John that Daryl was not marriage material and so he broke it off and ended up with Carolyn Bessette. And you know how the rest of it played out.
Anyway, getting back to Daryl ? her career sort of faltered for a while and then she had a minor comeback (with Kill Bill) and then? not so much. It wouldn?t surprise me to learn that she still had a lot of friends in the industry, but it also wouldn?t surprise me to learn that many people who know her think she?s a bit wacky (in a harmless way). So? this makes sense, sort of. Apparently, Daryl is autistic?
Daryl Hannah has revealed that she was diagnosed with Autism as a child and struggled ‘debilitating shyness’ as a result of the disorder. Now 52, Hannah – who reached the very peak of her profession through roles in smash hits like Splash, Blade Runner, Wall Street and Steel Magnolias – is able to quietly manage her symptoms.
But as she rose through the Hollywood hierarchy it was a different story altogether.
‘I?ve never been comfortable being the center of attention,’ the stunning blonde – who dated John Kennedy Jnr. – star told People. ‘It?s always freaked me out.’
The Chicago reared beauty said at times her shyness would become so overwhelming that she would rock back and forward constantly.
‘I?m a grown up now,’ she told the magazine. ‘I?ve learned a couple of things that really would?ve made my life easier if I?d known them 20 years ago.’
Hannah, who became famous as a teenager, said that she concealed her autism from movie producers and refused to do promotional interviews or talk show appearances, ‘not because I was above it, but because I was terrified.’
She added: ‘I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure.’
Now the limelight has moved elsewhere, the comfortable star says her roles have changed but she’s happy. With a boyfriend of three years, a rescue pig called Molly and and a farm near L.A, her life has changed dramatically.
‘Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.’
[From The Mail]
I remember how she used to be, and I don?t think people called her snobby or whatever. Most people just thought she marched to the beat of her own drummer. I think she was considered sort of spacey hippie bohemian type. But the autism diagnosis is very interesting and it makes me reconsider her career and her past interviews. I?m guessing that she was diagnosed with one of the more manageable forms of autism, like Asperger?s Syndrome. You know who else has Asperger?s? Steven Spielberg. I always associate Asperger?s Syndrome with ?savant? qualities, but just as often, it can just mean extreme social and private awkwardness.
Though this is the first time I?ve ever heard about Daryl?s autism diagnosis, apparently she has referenced it before in a handful of other interviews.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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