00:00I'm blue, da-da-dee, da-da-da.
00:02See, I could have been in Glee.
00:04Hi, I'm Sarah Pidgeon.
00:05And I'm Paul Anthony Kelley.
00:07And this is Portrait Mode with Harper's Bazaar.
00:13Today we're painting portraits of each other.
00:15I'm starting to get a little nervous.
00:17Yeah, me too.
00:18Okay.
00:19Here we go.
00:24Which Kennedy's fashion do you admire the most?
00:26Oh, I think Jackie Kennedy has some really just iconic looks.
00:31She understood the power of clothes.
00:33I mean, her clothing is still incredibly powerful to this day.
00:37What was your favorite looker piece that you wore as Carolyn?
00:40Oh, I really love... there's so many.
00:42I really like her Yoji Yamamoto's and...
00:45Oh, God.
00:45Paul.
00:47Oh, no.
00:47Are you doing me dirty over there?
00:49Uh...
00:49Oh, boy.
00:51I'm not sure about this already.
00:52I really love her Yoji Yamamoto pieces.
00:55But I also... she had such great street style.
00:58I love her corduroys and her turtlenecks.
01:01Oh, God.
01:01I forgot what your face looks like.
01:07If you could be in any past Ryan Murphy show, which would it be?
01:10Oh, that's a good question.
01:12Probably one of the horror stories, I think.
01:16Maybe the first one.
01:17Oh, that one's so good.
01:18Yeah, I think so.
01:19That one's so good.
01:20That's what really kicked it all off, right?
01:21Yeah, and the latex suit.
01:25Fashion.
01:25Which Ryan Murphy show pulled you in first?
01:28I love Nip Tuck.
01:29Oh, my gosh, yeah.
01:30I mean, Glee.
01:31Nip Tuck was so good.
01:32I mean, I think Glee would be so fun.
01:34So you could sing?
01:35Yeah, so I could sing.
01:37I was never a Glee club kid.
01:40We didn't really... we didn't have that at my school.
01:42Oh, Lord.
01:43Like, every time I add something new, this just looks worse.
01:48Who would you want to be in the reboot of Glee with you?
01:50Paul.
01:51Aww.
01:51Just the two-hander.
01:52Naturally.
01:53Yeah, it's a two-hander.
01:54I love it.
01:55It's a two-person Glee club, and they win every competition.
02:01What are three mannerisms you had to learn with playing Carolyn to set?
02:05I think I was really interested in trying to figure out her walk, and there's... you can
02:11sort of start piecing it together through pictures of her walking around the city, learning
02:15that she really walked down New York City streets with purpose as a young woman, and
02:20that was helpful.
02:21She spoke with her hands a lot.
02:23She connected with people.
02:24But it was really interesting being able to take sort of these still images and translate
02:29that into motion.
02:30Paul, were there any mannerisms you had to learn?
02:32Oh, there were a lot of mannerisms I had to learn while portraying the character of John.
02:38A lot of, like, the vocal things I had to learn.
02:40He had a real lackadaisical kind of cool guy.
02:45Chill speak.
02:46Do you want to grab a drink?
02:47Oh, technically I'm working.
02:49Well, isn't everyone here?
02:50I also had to delete my Canadianisms, which was interesting.
02:55The oots and the boots, they had to go.
02:58They were not acceptable for John Jr.
03:00Oh, there's water.
03:02It's water.
03:02It's so blue.
03:04Okay.
03:04I'm blue.
03:06See, I could have been in glee.
03:12Has JFK Jr's style inspired your personal wardrobe at all?
03:15It has, actually.
03:17I've very proudly adopted the wallet chain and the backwards hat.
03:22Was there a piece you wished you'd been kept?
03:24The Cartier watch?
03:27That would have been nice.
03:29You know, there were a lot of things.
03:30He had an excellent style.
03:31The hyper color shirt.
03:33Oh, yeah.
03:34Yeah, that was neat.
03:35Great colors.
03:36Right now, Paul looks like a missing person sketch.
03:40Derek, was there a piece of Carolyn you wished you'd kept?
03:43God, I mean, there's so many of her outfits.
03:45I wish I could take the whole thing home.
03:47I'm sort of, I'm still working on that conversation.
03:50Are you still conversing about that?
03:52Negotiations have come to a halt at the moment.
03:55There's a bit of chicken going on.
03:58Yeah, I mean, she has some great Levi's that I got to wear.
04:00A green Valentino coat from a collector.
04:03I was really excited that I got to wear a Yoji outfit a few times.
04:08I got to wear for four days of shooting, which was really, it made me quite happy.
04:11Which one?
04:12The cream skirt and the black jacket.
04:15Oh, yeah.
04:16Classic.
04:20Sarah, which scene were you most nervous to film?
04:22I was nervous and excited to film some of the scenes that reference the video evidence that we had of
04:29Carolyn and John.
04:30But it was exciting to have sort of this road map of the physicality and figure out how to use
04:38Connor Heinz's incredible writing of marrying those.
04:42What about you, Paul?
04:43All of it.
04:44No, I think I have to piggyback on Sarah's answer with, you know, recreating the video evidence that we had
04:52and just like getting it right.
04:54Oh, no.
04:56Oh, boy.
04:58Paul, which of your co-stars gave you the best advice?
05:01Eric Bergen.
05:02I don't know if I can say it out loud.
05:04Was there anything that you learned from watching Naomi Watts work up close?
05:08I mean, watching her work up close was the greatest gift I've had in my career, which is very new.
05:16We grew up in people's living rooms.
05:20They feel like they know us.
05:22I've always admired her work and, you know, the roles that she chooses and plays.
05:28So to be able to share screen time with her and be a part of her process, that was incredible.
05:35Oh, God.
05:36Yeah, I was really getting somewhere and then I think I just messed it up.
05:40How would today's social media affect Carolyn and Jake and Junior's relationship?
05:46Oh, I mean, who's to say?
05:48But they were the height, I think, or the advent of the tabloid culture and so much more immediate in
05:55a way because of social media.
05:57And I like to think that Carolyn maintained her privacy.
06:01I think it was incredibly important to her.
06:03I don't know.
06:04This might be where it all goes south.
06:09Oh, shoot.
06:10Will you show what it looks like 45 seconds ago?
06:13I don't know what I envisioned, but...
06:16Don't look.
06:17I'm sorry.
06:21Three, two, one.
06:27Oh, Paul.
06:28Oh.
06:30That's pretty good.
06:31You captured me.
06:31I love the mustache.
06:33Yeah, thanks.
06:33Look at my nose.
06:34I know.
06:37This is Paul.
06:38And this is Sarah.
06:40I decided to go with a blue theme.
06:44I didn't have time to color match, tone.
06:48Same.
06:48I was too nervous to do the sunglasses on the top of his head, so I went with his feature
06:54that stood out to me.
06:55I got the colors wrong.
06:57I imagined it as yellow, but turns out it's red and navy.
07:00But I could only do so much more blue.
07:03You know, this is her chin.
07:05I really focused on her hair color with the paints that I had.
07:11You know, nice little red lip.
07:13Yeah, her eye color.
07:15Thin eyebrows.
07:16They're less thin now.
07:18Yeah, they've really started to grow in.
07:20But they were thin in the show.
07:21And that's what I was drawing from.
07:23Thank you so much, Paul, for capturing me.
07:25Oh, thank you for capturing my cake face.
07:32Thanks so much for watching.
07:33And be sure to check out Love Story, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bissette on FX and Hulu.
07:57We'll see you next time.
07:58We'll see you next time.
07:58Bye.
07:58Bye.
07:58Bye.
07:59Bye.
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