Exclusive | College classmate of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy found it difficult to watch Love Story: There is nobody like her
No actress could fill her Calvin Klein loafers.A Boston University classmate of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy told The Post she did not appreciate seeing another woman attempt to play her on screen.“The first episode, I just thought, ‘Oh my God, this girl is nothing like her,'” Jenny Syquia said of Sarah Pidgeon’s portrayal in “Love Story: John F.Kennedy Jr.
& Carolyn Bessette.”“But there is nobody like her.So who could actually be her?” Syquia, 58, who was chosen along with Bessette to be featured in the 1988 Girls of B.U.
calendar, got acclimated to Pidgeon’s version in the FX and Hulu miniseries, which airs its finale on March 26.“The more I watched the show, I liked the actress more.Now that I’m getting more into it, I feel it a little bit more.”Since there is very little video footage of Bessette, aside from a rare glimpse of her speaking in a 1998 Entertainment Tonight interview, it is virtually impossible to recreate the “insane magnetism” she radiated.
“She was unforgettable ..
.That does not translate in pictures, just this energy she had .
..
like this aura, she just glowed,” Syquia said.“Every time I did see her ..
.It sounds weird to say because I don’t think I’ve ever said it about another woman, but like you couldn’t take your eyes off her.“There’s people with charisma, but not crazy beauty.
And then there’s people that have charisma and then beauty, but maybe they’re not nice.But she was all of those things.”A Binghamton, NY native, Syquia was two years below Bessette at college, but the women took similar paths after graduation — both moving to Manhattan to pursue careers in the fashion industry.Syquia’s role as a fashion assistant to Anna Wintour entailed traveling to the Calvin Klein offices, where she’d run into her former classmate — who always left an impression.“She was so cool.
And she was also so nice.Those are kind of the people that become the most popular, the ones that m...