The actress tells PEOPLE the FX series sparked nostalgia — and gave her a chance to share memories with her kids
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- Tori Spelling is sharing what it was like to watch Love Story alongside her kids
- The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum spoke with PEOPLE about meeting FX star Sarah Pidgeon and what she enjoyed about the series
- “I definitely love the fashion,” she said, adding that “it took me to some really good memories through the ’90s”
Tori Spelling says watching Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette took her right back to the '90s.
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 52, caught up with PEOPLE on Friday, May 1 as she reflected on her love of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and meeting Sarah Pidgeon (who played Carolyn in Love Story).
“Meeting Sarah… was amazing. She’s so iconic," Spelling told PEOPLE at the Calamigos Ranch Resort & Spa Leading Hotels of the World Accreditation Celebration.
"I definitely love the fashion," she adds of the FX series. "It took me to some really good memories through the ’90s, so it was nice to reflect back on that and watch it with a new generation and my teens."
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As Spelling explains, it was "really cool to be able to tell them stories about going through that time era and making it current now.” Spelling, who shares her five kids with ex Dean McDermott, also revealed that her kids are fascinated with '90s fashion themselves. The actress is mom to teens Liam, 19, Stella, 17, Hattie, 14, Finn, 13, and also 9-year-old Beau.
"My kids are really into fashion, every single one of them in a different way," she says. "Fashion is about how it makes you feel. I think it’s about finding your unique perspective. It can be anything."
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, which premiered on FX on Feb. 12, stars Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. It follows the pair's romance in the years leading up to their tragic deaths in a 1999 plane crash. Other stars include Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy, Alessandro Nivola as Calvin Klein, Leila George as Kelly Klein, Sydney Lemmon as Lauren Bessette and Constance Zimmer as Ann Marie Messina.
Pidgeon, 29, recently told PEOPLE that portraying the late fashion icon in the series, which wrapped in March, had her "in constant pursuit of trying to evoke her essence and stay true to the character that I had built off of all the research that I did."
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"So I think that was my way of honoring her — a constant pursuit of feeling like I was trying to be as truthful as possible with the script and then the knowledge that I had of her and marrying those together," Pidgeon told PEOPLE at Disney’s Toast to Television red carpet.
The actress also revealed that she "learned a lot" from her experience in Love Story, calling it "really great to play a young woman with so much sort of ferocity in her protection of her friendships, her private life."
"She had very strong opinions, very self-possessed, and I don’t know if Sarah always exhibits those qualities," she said. "And to be able to embody someone with the fearlessness that she did that she had… I hope that it rubbed off on me. I mean, it was wonderful to be able to play that sort of without abandon.”
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette is now streaming on Hulu.
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