“I get it. I’m protective of [the late couple] as well. We all just wanted to be as precise and accurate as possible,” Mance told the outlet. “We studied for months throughout filming,” he said. “A lot of these online people might not have even been alive when she was,” says Mance.
“We found a collector out of Canada who had, I think, 30 or 31 original pieces. I don’t think that they could authenticate that they were actual pieces that she herself had worn, but they were exact pieces from that time period and from the collector,” Mance shared. Reddit soon found the collector, if you’re interested. He added that the most difficult job was actually designing her wardrobe for the years in which there are no reference photos to work from.
“Everybody knows what they wore from 1996 to 1999, but we were telling the story of how they met…The most challenging thing was how to tell the story in terms of the clothes—who she was before she was photographed relentlessly,” he said, pointing out that for JFK Jr., famous from birth, there was no such dark period.
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