Actress Sarah Pidgeon is hoping she is able to keep the clothes she wore to play Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in new TV drama series Love Story – insisting “there’s not a bad outfit in the show”.
Sarah Pidgeon is hoping she’s allowed to keep all the clothes she wore to play Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in TV drama Love Story.
The 29-year-old actress stars in Ryan Murphy’s new series – which charts the love affair between fashion maven Bessette and John F. Kennedy Jr. before the couple’s tragic death in a plane crash in 1999 – and Pidgeon admits she loved the vintage 1990s outfits she was able to wear while filming the show.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “There’s not a bad outfit in the show. I was wearing Calvin Klein from the ’90s in some of the scenes. I’m still waiting to see if I can get my hands on my wardrobe. Time will tell …
“There’s a few pieces that I got, but I have my eye on a few outfits that I wore that I really think I need. It’s like getting medically necessary at this point.”
Bessette – who worked at Calvin Klein before her marriage to Kennedy – became known for her classic style and Pidgeon was thrilled to help recreate some of her most famous looks.
She also found dyeing her hair blonde helped her inhabit the character, adding: “The hair was a big transformative part of finding the Carolyn that we see in the show, and in terms of costumes, it was particularly helpful later on in the series, when we were able to source those vintage pieces that you can see in these heavily photographed images of her.
“But I think throughout the entire show, it really did feel like a collaboration. I always felt like I had a seat at the table. Not only in her costuming and hair and makeup, but also in the teamwork that we were doing. And making sure that I found integral parts of Carolyn.
“Karri Hill, who did my color for the show, is just such a genius, and working with Barry Lee Moe, who found the Carolyn hair. I’m just so thankful to him, in particular, he styled it every day.
“I am understanding how transformative the power of hair is, because this is my biggest hair transformation yet.”
Sarah Pidgeon hoping to keep her Carolyn Bessette wardrobe
