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Daryl Hannah (Dree Hemingway) made an unexpected appearance at John’s loft shortly after his first date with Carolyn. John had just been enthusiastically telling his cousin and best friend, Anthony Radziwill (Erich Bergen), about his desire to call Carolyn.
Before long, John was taking Daryl as his date to his cousin Edward Kennedy Jr.‘s wedding in October 1993, much to the dismay of his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy—a detail exaggerated for dramatic effect but rooted in truth. Carolyn discovered through a tabloid headline that her seemingly devoted admirer had rekindled things with his famous ex.
Despite this, John continued to send Carolyn flowers and, upon running into her at another gathering, confessed that he “can’t seem to function” knowing she despised him. Carolyn’s response was curt: “I don’t know you well enough to hate you.”
This unexpected encounter served as a dramatic introduction for the Splash actress in Love Story. However, the show’s producers did not consult Daryl, who has been married to Neil Young since 2018, for her perspective.
The surprise rendezvous was a dramatic way for Love Story to introduce the Splash star, but producers didn’t seek input from Daryl, who’s been married to Neil Young since 2018.
“We want to find these characters from the inside out,” producer Nina Jacobson told Gold Derby, “and it’s hard to serve a bunch of agendas when you [go] to the real people. So we tend not to do that except in rare cases.”
In Daryl’s case, she’s “an adversary to what you want narratively in the story,” Jacobson explained, but “we still try to really show respect to the fact that she does have a fluency with this [celebrity] world that Carolyn doesn’t have.”