'May December' director Todd Haynes broke down how Julianne Moore used Mary Kay Letourneau as an inspiration for her role in the film
“I really wanted a fictional story that dealt with this tabloid culture of the ’90s that has kind of seemingly led into this true crime biopic world we’re in now, and kind of question that transition and why we want to keep recreating these stories,” screenwriterexplained her vision during a screening at the New York Film Festival on Friday, September 29.
“This idea of how does this kind of original relationship occur? What is the myth these two people tell each other about the roles they’re playing?” Haynes said during the event about Moore’s character. “She’s not a pedophile, this woman; she doesn’t have a history of going after every little teenage boy. There’s something very specific that happened to these two people.
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