Daryl Hannah Arrives at John’s Loft After His First Date With Carolyn

Daryl Hannah Shows Up at John’s Loft After His First Date With Carolyn

Daryl Hannah (Dree Hemingway), the on-again-off-again girlfriend of John, is at his loft when he returns home after rhapsodizing to his cousin and best friend Anthony Radziwill (Erich Bergen) about his desire to call Carolyn.

Shortly after, he takes Daryl to cousin Edward Kennedy Jr.‘s wedding in October 1993, much to the disapproval of his mother Jacqueline Kennedy (this disapproval is emphasized here for effect, but it is based in reality), and Carolyn discovers from a tabloid cover that her seemingly eager suitor has rekindled his relationship with his movie star ex.

Meanwhile, John has been sending Carolyn flowers and eventually tells her when they meet again at another event that he “can’t seem to function” knowing that she dislikes him. She responds, “I don’t know you well enough to hate you.”

The unexpected meeting was a dramatic way for Love Story to introduce the Splash star, but the producers did not seek input from Daryl, who has 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 situation, she is “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.”