Grace Gummer Reveals How She Would Feel If Ryan Murphy Made a Series About Her Famous Mom Meryl Streep

Grace Gummer stars in the new Ryan Murphy anthology Love Story, based on the real-life romance between John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette — but she’s not sure if her own famous family member’s story should be dramatized.

While the series has become an instant obsession among fans, JFK Jr.’s nephew, Jack Schlossberg, has slammed the series and its creator for profiting off of his family’s tragedy.

“If you want to know someone who’s never met anyone in my family, knows nothing about us, talk to Ryan Murphy,” Schlossberg, 33, during an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning on March 1. “The guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about, and he’s making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”

When asked during an interview with Elle how she would feel if Murphy, 60, created a series based on Gummer’s famous mother, Meryl Streep, the actress, who plays JFK Jr.’s sister, Caroline Kennedy, on the show, simply said, “I just don’t know if that would happen.”

“Because my upbringing was nowhere near public,” the 39-year-old added in the interview, published on Sunday, March 8. “The thing about the Kennedys is there’s always been this lore about them, this mist in the American era that is so intriguing and will constantly be huge on the public stage. It always has been. People are always fascinated with them. And no one is immune to an ill-fated love story. I think we really, really need that right now.”

In addition to Grace, the Devil Wears Prada star also shares daughters Mamie Gummer and Louisa Jacobson and son Henry Wolfe Gummer with artist Don Gummer.