'I've never poured more of myself into a character,' the actor says of her role as Ann Marie Messina, mother of Carolyn and Lauren Bessette
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FX It’s the tightness around her lips, the glassiness of her eyes and the way her eye makeup smears as she fights back tears.
When Constance Zimmer breaks down in the final episode of FX’s “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette,” every inch of her face exudes that painful mix of sorrow and fury that often accompanies grief.
Zimmer soars in Episode 9, “Search and Recovery,” as her character, Ann Marie Messina, deals with the cruel shock of losing both of her daughters in the plane crash that also killed JFK Jr. Zimmer worked hard to capture the aggravation that Ann feels — including the smothering effect of the fame and notoriety that envelops the Kennedys, which is one of the central themes of “Love Story.”
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