{"id":348453,"date":"2026-06-10T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=348453"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:06:23","slug":"grace-gummer-reacts-to-jack-schlossbergs-love-story-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/grace-gummer-reacts-to-jack-schlossbergs-love-story-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Gummer Reacts to Jack Schlossberg&#8217;s Love Story Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Grace Gummer<\/strong> is standing by her portrayal of <strong>Caroline Kennedy<\/strong> in FX\u2019s controversial series <em>Love Story<\/em> two months after <strong>Jack Schlossberg<\/strong> criticized her performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I can say is, I actually can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s wish to see your life portrayed onscreen,\u201d Gummer, 40, said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/grace-gummer-interview-love-story-finale-jack-schlossberg-1236613187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> published Saturday, June 6. \u201cMy goal was to play her with honesty and compassion and delicacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress added, \u201cI actually have an immense amount of respect for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schlossberg, 33, previously spoke out about Gummer\u2019s portrayal of his mother during an April 15 appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qL2f-GMjWDM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Next Query with Katie Couric<\/em><\/a>, admitting he showed Kennedy a clip from the show, \u201cand we were laughing so hard, as if that\u2019s how my mom acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Stars Who&#8217;ve Debunked FX&#8217;s &#8216;Love Story&#8217; About JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFX dramatized John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette\u2019s tragic romance in Love Story, which sparked backlash for the way in which it was portrayed. Love Story, created by Ryan Murphy, stars Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette. The actual-life couple were together on and off between 1992 until their 1996 wedding. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTake into accout, it is likely to be entertaining, nevertheless it\u2019s fiction,\u201d Schlossberg said of the series, which he described as \u201csilly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4350443\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:100%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4350443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all\" alt=\"Grace Gummer Reacts to Jack Schlossberg Love Story Critique\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=100&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=200&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=300&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=400&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=500&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=600&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=700&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=800&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=900&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1200&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1400&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1600&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1800&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1920&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Grace Gummer and Jack Schlossberg<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While breaking her silence on Schlossberg\u2019s remarks, Gummer said that nobody from the Kennedy family has contacted her directly concerning the show. As for whether she would chat with Caroline if granted the chance, she told <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, \u201cI might let her speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gummer also reflected on a very poignant scene from the season finale, at which point Caroline discovered concerning the fatal 1999 plane crash that claimed the lives of her brother <strong>John F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>, his wife, <strong>Carolyn Bessette Kennedy<\/strong>, and sister-in-law, <strong>Lauren Bessette Carolyn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4350442\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4350442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all\" alt=\"Paul Anthony Kelly and Grace Gummer Love Story Grace Gummer Reacts to Jack Schlossberg Love Story Critique\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=100&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=200&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=300&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=400&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=500&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=600&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=700&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=800&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=900&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1200&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1400&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1600&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1800&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Paul-Anthony-Kelly-and-Grace-Gummer-Love-Story-Grace-Gummer-Reacts-to-Jack-Schlossberg-Love-Story-Critique.jpg?w=1920&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Paul Anthony Kelly and Grace Gummer<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Eric Liebowitz\/FX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou might have to kind of search inside yourself in a really deep way, emotionally,\u201d Gummer said of how she got into character and filmed her visceral response to the devastating news. (JFK Jr., Carolyn and Lauren Bessette were discovered five days after the crash on July 21, 1999.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You might have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTechnicality is de facto vital to me as an actor. Knowing the lines was, before everything, my center and my mark inside the scene,\u201d she added. \u201cI made sure that I knew all of the beats because a number of the words were repeated, but they were all said in other ways. So I actually tried to be sure that I knew what I used to be saying after I was saying it in order that I wouldn\u2019t have to consider any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gummer said she bared all of it for that scene, noting, \u201cI actually let myself go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing I left behind, physically or emotionally. I let myself be completely open and vulnerable,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd, to be honest, I attempt to imagine what it\u2019s wish to lose someone you&#8217;re keen on, and it\u2019s unimaginable, but I attempted to do my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Gummer is standing by her portrayal of Caroline Kennedy in FX\u2019s controversial series Love Story two months after Jack Schlossberg criticized her performance. \u201cAll I can say is, I actually can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s wish to see your life portrayed onscreen,\u201d Gummer, 40, said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Saturday, June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[18523,504,24303,5279,484,1185,44792,3176],"class_list":["post-348453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-critique","tag-grace","tag-gummer","tag-jack","tag-love","tag-reacts","tag-schlossbergs","tag-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348456,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348453\/revisions\/348456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}