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 is sandwiched between multiple obligations. “It