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

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

Soon after, John takes Daryl to cousin Edward Kennedy Jr.‘s wedding in October 1993, which does not please his mother Jacqueline Kennedy (this disapproval is emphasized for effect but is rooted in reality), and Carolyn learns from a tabloid cover that her seemingly interested suitor is back with his movie star ex.

Meanwhile, John has been sending Carolyn flowers and eventually confesses to her during an encounter at another event that he “can’t seem to function” knowing she dislikes him. Carolyn responds, “I don’t know you well enough to hate you.”

The unexpected meeting served as a dramatic introduction for Love Story to feature the Splash star, but the producers did not consult 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 represents “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.”