Alessandro Nivola is somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike, holding his phone vertically.
He is heading from New Jersey to New York for the 2026 Gotham TV Awards, where his “Love Story: John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette” co-star Sarah Pidgeon is nominated, and the 25 minutes he has carved out for this conversation are the only ones he could find in a schedule that has, by his own admission, finally caught up to him. The Manhattan-bound trip …