Love Story stars reported to police over domestic dispute
Love Story stars Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon were reported to the police over their recreation of a vicious fight between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette at a park in New York City park.
The stars of Love Story were reported to the police over their recreation of a fight between John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
Ryan Murphy's new Disney Plus drama features Paul Anthony Kelly as the son of US President John F Kennedy and Sarah Pidgeon as Calvin Klein employee Bessette charting their relationship prior to their tragic death in a plane crash in 1997 with the two actors filming much of the action on the streets of New York City at the exact locations where Kennedy and Bessette used to spend time. However, recreating a vicious fight between the pair at Manhattan's Battery Park led to a member of the public mistaking it for a real domestic dispute and reporting it to the authorities.
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Sarah explained the ferocious bust-up led to the generation of a Citizen Alert - an app which tracks police reports. She explained: "We actually had a citizen alert filed on us, called on us. There was a couple having a domestic dispute. No [they didn't notice the film crew] maybe they thought it was reality television gone wrong or something. "
Love Story executive producer Brad Simpson also spoke out about the incident, revealing the crew were on standby waiting for police officers to show up at the scene.
He told Gold Derby: "As we were shooting it, we got on the Citizen app [which tracks police activity and reports] and saw that someone reported that there's a vicious fight that's broken out on a film set and they're calling it into the police.
"We kept waiting for squad cars to show up! It was that real and that dramatic."
Brad added: "We had crowds of people watching and we shot all day. At one point, the dog that we were using got so freaked out by the fighting that we had to cut him out of the shots!
"It’s a testament to the creative team for coming up with a fight that feels like a real couple’s fight."
Sara told the publication: "The [public attention] was constant when we were filming out and about in New York. It was exciting to be in the same places that Carolyn and John [were], but that also came with onlookers and the sounds of the city, and that symphony underscored their lives. There were commonalities between their existence and ours.
"But I want to reiterate that we were making a television show, and weren’t just screaming at each other. We were merely existing in our lives."
