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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone else feel like the actor playing JFK jr is not doing a great job portraying him?

He comes across as too meek and nice. Whereas interviews I have seen of JFK jr show him as being really confident and slightly cocky. [/quote]

Agree. He is not capturing his essence. The actors who I think did a great job are the people playing-
Ethel 
Daryl Hannah 
Caroline

The actors playing John and Carolyn missed it. And Naomi Watts did the worst job. [/quote]

Agreed. JFK jr was anything but meek. He was super confident and cocky with a hint of mischief [/quote]

I wouldn't describe this portrayal as meek. I think they are trying to recast his worst behavior in a positive light, which in some cases doesn't make sense. To me the biggest issue is that they are working hard to portray his entitlement and lack of accountability as him just being a little oblivious or almost childlike. I'm sure some of it was that, and I do think he had an issue with arrested development (which is not uncommon for someone who loses a parent so young).

But he was also deeply entitled. He was the youngest child in a very wealthy and famous family, and his older sibling was hyper-competent and independent. John got mothered by multiple women (not just Jackie and Caroline but also his nanny Maud Shaw and, from a more distant angle, Rose and Ethel). But people let him off the hook constantly because they felt bad for him, and the result was that he grew up very full of himself and convinced he could do no wrong. It was a form of narcissism and all of his worst behavior, including his rampant cheating, is part of that.

But on the show they seem to just want to portray him as sort of dumb? When he does stuff that is very selfish almost to the point of cruelty (like the way he introduces Carolyn to his sister and BIL, or to Ethel and the rest of the family) the show acts like he's just too oblivious to realize he should be more thoughtful, and skips over the fact that part of his personality was to just do whatever he wanted in the moment and assume everyone around him will adjust and make it okay for him. And people enable him, including Carolyn, because he is handsome and rich and famous and also because people never really forget in the back of their heads that he suffered a great tragedy. The show is told from the perspective of an enabler because it's more interested in portraying the tragedy of his death than in really giving an accurate portrayal of his life.[/quote]

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