Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bassette

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Anonymous wrote:I normally love Naomi Watts, but I’m finding her portrayal of Jackie almost unwatchable. Her voice, and the constant chain-smoking is so annoying as is everything that comes out of her mouth.

They are focusing way too much on her in episode two and three.

I know Watts is 57, and Jackie was in her early 60s during this time period, but I think Watts looks much too young for the role. It looks like she is a sibling to Caroline and John, rather than their mother.

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I don’t think anyone who was an adult at the time thinks it was a great love story. It’s just Hollywood trying to make money off two beautiful people who died tragically young.

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Anonymous wrote:If you accidentally kill your wife, I don't think it should qualify as a love story.

Kennedys are good at accidentally killing women. Like at Chappaquidick.

There were no accidents

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I was looking forward to it but it’s just so drab, serious and unglamorous. Scenes at Jackie’s like watching paint dry, JFK JR right physically but lacking swagger. The main actress is uncharismatic, all wrong in terms of coloring. I think Sophie Turner would have matched CBK physically a lot better with the super light skin and very blue eyes, plus she has the height and more singular face. She also is an excellent actress.

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I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

She didn’t like it and tried to hide. He was used to it and liked it.

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Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that she was extremely late to the airstrip because she spent a couple of hours at the nail salon having the paint color redone several times to match her outfit for the rehearsal dinner.
By the time she finally arrived, it was dark already. They should have just skipped the dinner and waited until the next day to fly to the wedding but he thought they could still arrive in time for dinner even though he had not yet achieved the level of flying by instrument panel. There is no horizon in the darkness. They probably had no idea that they were heading into the water.
Both parties were daft. This is why his mother prohibited him from pursuing flying small aircrafts while she was alive. She understood something about his lack of judgement.

I don’t ever think I’ve seen a photo of her even wearing any nail polish (she barely wore recognizable make up). She certainly wouldn’t be getting matchy-matchy manicure with her dress color. Come on. Do you believe everything you read?

Yeah, this story seems suspect. She was a minimalist. I remember hearing it was to match a shade of lavender in her dress or something ?but she almost always wore neutrals. She was the epitome of Calvin Klein's look at the time. Simple lines, body conscious, no obvious makeup and I can't imagine colored nails. But I can see someone making up this story. I think she was high maintenance and so it fit.

I can't believe I know this, but she was getting a pedicure. There are a few pics of her online sporting a pedicure, but I agree that I've never seen her with a manicure.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

How to reconcile this with the posters saying they dated for several years before committing to a monogamous relationship? Wouldn’t she have gotten somewhat used ro being photographed with him, or had enough experience with it to decide that life wasn’t for her?

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I will never watch it.

One, they don’t have any likeness or resemblance to Carolyn or John.

Two, it’s complete heresy, thinly sourced. It’s not a documentary. It’s fictionalized. What’s the point?

JFK Jr was a tremendous person - ethical, principled, a gorgeous lovely man. He would be disgusted with this.

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Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

I don't get why being photographed is such a big deal. Put on sunglasses and headphones and just walk quickly by.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

I don't get why being photographed is such a big deal. Put on sunglasses and headphones and just walk quickly by.

Wearing big Beats like headphones or AirPods were not a thing yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone who was an adult at the time thinks it was a great love story. It’s just Hollywood trying to make money off two beautiful people who died tragically young.

To me it’s like the Wuthering Heights grays now. There were elements that you can pick up on (their obsession with each other) that make it seem like a tragic love story, though the novel was always clearly not.

I think it’s just because they died young and people can’t romanticize things. PS yes I think if they had continued, they would’ve had a really rough time and probably not staying together.

I recently read Brooke shields memoir and she described a date with JFK Jr. that sounds horrible. She was not very nice about it. He wasn’t aggressive or anything, but I think she either felt like she had to sleep with him or something and she acted like he was no great lover.

I do think people are being too hard on his intelligence. I actually thought George was way ahead of its time. I don’t think he was dumb, I just think he was average, but because of his looks and his pedigree, we expected the world from him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

She didn’t like it and tried to hide. He was used to it and liked it.

So she didn’t like attention & being photographed, so she married JFK Jr. & lived with him in NYC? Ok.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but I never liked that in photos of the couple, she always sort of stood a little behind JFK Jr and looked doen almost demurely (Meghan Markle used the same stance in the early years of her relationship with Harry). It always seemed fake/posed and like she didn’t view herself an equal.

It was well-known that she hated being photographed. There was a video of her with JFK Jr being hounded by photographers in a parking garage and she just completely shut down. She found the attention so unbearable that she didn't even want to live in NYC after they were married.

I don't get why being photographed is such a big deal. Put on sunglasses and headphones and just walk quickly by.

They waited for her outside her apartment, followed her to work, etc. The Princess Diana thing had just happened and the media was always saying JFK Jr was "America's Prince." It was so bad she told people that's why she quit her job (probably bc the paparazzi knew her comings and goings when she worked.). They didn't have any security and their building didn't even have a doorman in those days. I think the massive attention just spooked her.