Love Story creator Connor Hines is already brainstorming ideas about which iconic couple he’ll feature next into a potential second season.
“Maybe Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton,” Hines said of whose story he’d like to highlight in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Monday, March 23. “They have the right intensity.”
Taylor and Burton met in 1961 while working together on Cleopatra. At the time of filming, Taylor was married to Eddie Fisher while Burton was married to Sybil Williams. Burton and Taylor ended up having a publicized affair and they subsequently divorced their respective spouses. Taylor and Burton tied the knot in 1964.
During their marriage, Burton and Taylor starred in several films together. After a decade, the pair divorced. However, Taylor and Burton reconciled and wed for a second time in 1975. The following year, they called it quits for good and divorced again.
Despite ending their relationship, Taylor and Burton remained close friends. When Burton died in 1984 at age 58, Taylor declared he was the love of her life. Taylor passed away in 2011. She was 79.
While Love Story has not been officially renewed for a season 2 yet, the FX series’ inaugural season was highly successful. The show, which premiered in February, has broken streaming records for Hulu and Disney+.
Love Story follows the tragic romance of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. JFK Jr. and Bessette met in the early 1990s and got married in 1996. They died three years later in 1999 in a plane crash off the coast of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. On the show, Sarah Pidgeon plays Bessette, while Paul Kelly portrays JFK Jr.
While the couple didn’t have a happy ending in real-life, Hines was pleased with how he was able to tell their story.
“It’s exactly as I pictured it in my mind when I was writing it,” Hines told VF.
The Love Story finale drops on Thursday, March 26. It is expected to include the plane crash incident.
In addition to taking inspiration from the historical event, the show is based on Elizabeth Beller’s book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Executive producer Brad Simpson exclusively shared with Luxury Handbag Shopping how the writing team was able to use several elements to tell the story.
“You reach out to one person, and then it becomes, ‘Why are you not reaching out to every person?’ We love these characters. We did deep, deep research. It’s based on not just the Elizabeth Beller book but many other artifacts from that time and many other histories,” he explained to Us. “We came from a place of love, but if you foreground one person’s personal story and their version of the truth, then you have to foreground everybody’s, and often they’re in conflict. On all our shows we tried to be true to what we think the characters were and show you what it was like to walk in their footsteps.”
