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Article: De Rossi warms up to role as Bessette
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 12, 2003
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LOS ANGELES--Australian actress Portia de Rossi says that she
always found Carolyn Bessette markedly different from the image
usually portrayed in the tabloids. This different perception
influenced her to play the beautiful young woman who died with her
husband, John F. Kennedy Jr., and her sister, Lauren, when their
small plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on July 19, 1999. De
Rossi says she didn't want Bessette depicted as "aloof, a little
cold," by some other actress who had not experienced "how fun she was
and how cheeky and gregarious."
So de Rossi worked her hardest to capture the Bessette she had
encountered: "Just such a lovely woman and with so much charisma ...
very ...