The premiere date for the inaugural season of Ryan Murphy‘s newest anthology series, Love Story, is set for Feb. 12.
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is an adaptation of Elizabeth Beller’s book, ‘Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.’ The logline for the series reads: “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette charts the complex and heartbreaking journey of a couple whose private love became a national obsession.”
In the newly released trailer, JFK Jr. (Paul Anthony Kelly), President John F. Kennedy’s only son, is described as America’s “most eligible bachelor.” He falls in love with Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon) – described as “a confident and independent woman who rose from being a sales assistant to an executive at Calvin Klein, and became a trusted confidante of its eponymous founder.”
Kennedy, 38, married Bessette, 33, in 1996. The couple died in 1999, along with Carolyn’s older sister Lauren, in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., in 1999. The series will also feature Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy, Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Alessandro Nivola as Calvin Klein, Leila George as Kelly Klein, Sydney Lemmon as Lauren Bessette and Constance Zimmer as Ann Marie Messina.
An official series synopsis reads: “It was a love story that captured the attention of the nation: John F. Kennedy Jr. was the closest thing to American royalty. The country watched him grow from a boy to a beloved bachelor and media sensation. Carolyn Bessette was a star in her own right. Fiercely independent and with a singular style, she rose from being a sales assistant to an executive at Calvin Klein, and became a trusted confidante of its eponymous founder. John and Carolyn’s connection was immediate, electric and undeniable. As their love story unfolded on a national stage, the intense fame and media attention that came along with it threatened to rip them apart.”
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette premieres with three episodes on February 12 on FX and Hulu, after which one new episode of the nine-episode series will be released each subsequent Thursday.
See the trailer: HERE.
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