Landing the role of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in the FX series Love Story took more than just a standout audition for Sarah Pidgeon. There was some trickery involved to get the series' producers to see her in the titular role of the fashion stylist turned Kennedy wife.
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, the actress revealed that the casting process involved more than just auditioning. She had to have the right look as well. That was achieved by a little creative license on her team's part to make Pidgeon look even more polished, chic, and unmistakably Bessette-Kennedy.
Bessette-Kennedy had blonde hair. Pidgeon has naturally dark hair.
Therefore, her team resorted to some light trickery to drive home the point that the actress had not only the talent but the look to play the role. She told Kimmel that her team "photoshopped" her dark hair blonde.
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"My team actually photoshopped blonde hair onto me," Pidgeon told Kimmel. "I have very naturally dark hair. So I think that maybe helped with convincing production that this was the right move."
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Achieving Bessette-Kennedy's beachy hair color and style was one of the biggest hurdles Love Story producers faced. After the first photos from the set of the Ryan Murphy production emerged, there was backlash, including commentary from Bessette-Kennedy's colorist Brad Johns, who told Vogue the color was "totally wrong."
Johns later shared his recollections of achieving the now-iconic hue in an interview with PEOPLE Magazine.
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"Eye color's first because if it's blue, anything that's golden's going to show that up," Johns revealed. "And if they're icy blue, white shows that up. I would look at the whole package... I mean, she was just gorgeous."
He concluded, "Skin color second, time of the season third, and what you do for a living fourth. You can't be a judge with chunks in your hair, you just can't — but you could be Carolyn. She was gorgeous. She was so beautiful."
Sarah Pidgeon stars alongside Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. in the FX limited series Love Story. Episode 6, "The Wedding," airs March 5 at 9 p.m. ET.
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