“Love Story ”creator teases next couple for limited series: 'They have the right intensity'

Marina WattsMon, March 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM UTC

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Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kennedy in 'Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette'Credit: FXKey Points -

Love Story creator Connor Hines has another famous couple in mind should there be a second season of the limited series.

Hines suggests a chronicle of Hollywood royalty for the yet-to-be-confirmed season 2.

"They have the right intensity," he said of the famously combustible pair.

As Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette comes to a close, the series' creator has his eye on another couple.

Although a second season of the FX series has yet to be confirmed, Connor Hines thinks he knows another famous relationship that would fit the Love Story template. "Maybe Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton," he recently told Vanity Fair. "They have the right intensity."

Taylor and Burton had a famously tempestuous relationship that made headlines for more than a decade, beginning with the affair they struck up on the set of 1963's Cleopatra — the first of 11 movies they'd make together. At the time, Taylor was on her fourth marriage, to Eddie Fisher, while Burton was married to his first wife Sybil Williams.

In March 1964, Taylor divorced Fisher, Burton's marriage dissolved, and the actors got married. "I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions, and I can't pretend I didn't know what I was doing when I became involved with Richard," Taylor wrote in her memoir Elizabeth Takes Off.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard BurtonCredit: Bob Penn/Sygma/Sygma via Getty

The couple traveled the world and were known for their gratuitous spending habits, along with their constant arguments. They divorced months after their 10th wedding anniversary in June 1974, but would wed again in October 1975. Their second marriage was brief; the "Battling Burtons" divorced for a second time in July 1976.

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"Even though there were rough times, I wouldn't give up one minute of my time with Richard Burton," Taylor wrote.

Love Story is a dramatization of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's high-profile romance, starring Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon. They met in the 1990s and wed in 1996, capturing the world's attention and constantly being trailed by the paparazzi. Widely regarded as American royalty, their relationship faced constant stress from the relentless tabloid media.

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Their lives were cut short when they, along with Bessette's sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999.

John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in Washington, D.C. in May 1999Credit: Tyler Mallory/Liaison via Getty

The finale of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette airs Thursday, March 26, on FX and will be available to stream on Hulu the following day.

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