Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore both reacted to Vili Fualaau’s objection of May December on Sunday, highlighting the motion picture was not meant to inform the specific tale of his partnership with ex-spouse Mary Kay Letourneau.
“It’s not based on them,” Portman informed Enjoyment Tonight from the red rug at the 2024 Golden Globes.“Obviously their story influenced the culture that we all grew up in and influenced the idea. But it’s fictional characters that are really brought to life by Julianne Moore and Charles Melton so beautifully.”
Might December informs the tale of imaginary starlet Elizabeth Berry (Portman) sent out to see couple Gracie (Moore) and Joe (Melton). Gracie satisfied and taken advantage of Joe when he was 13, doing time in jail for youngster rape prior to being launched and weding Joe. Both share 3 kids, among whom she delivered to while behind bars. Film Writer Samy Burch has actually pointed out Letourneau– that began a sex-related partnership with Fualaau when he was 12 and she was 34 in 1996– as an ideas for the movie.
Portman included that the motion picture is “its own story — it’s not meant to be a biopic.”
Moore concurred with her co-star, stating the movie’s supervisor, Todd Haynes,“was always very clear when we were working on this movie that this was an original story. This was a story about these characters. So that’s how we looked at it too. This was our document. We created these characters from the page.”
Fualaau informed The Hollywood Press reporter in a tale released recently that he was “offended by the entire project and lack of respect given to me.”
“I’m still alive and well,” Fualaau, currently 40, claimed.“If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story.”
He proceeded, “I love movies — good movies. And I admire ones that capture the essence and complications of real-life events. You know, movies that allow you to see or realize something new every time you watch them.”
