May December: Everything We Know About the Juicy New Drama
glamour.comcostar in May December, the highly anticipated drama from Todd Haynes that couldn't be more current. The movie is sure to get everyone talking, as it taps into and the politics of immoral characters. (The term “May-December” is often used to describe relationships wherein one person is much older than the other, though not necessarily in a “problematic, underage” way.)Here's everything we know about the juicy new movie everyone will be talking about.Actor Elizabeth Barry (Natalie Portman) moves in with Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), who is raising a family with her husband, Joe (Charles Melton), after meeting him and starting their relationship…when he was a preteen.
Barry is set to play Atherton-Yoo in an upcoming movie about her life and the tabloid scandal that resulted from her and Joe's relationship, which Joe insists was consensual.The main characters are all fictitious, but the backstory appears to be inspired by the controversial relationship between Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, which dominated headlines in the late ’90s.
Letourneau had been Fualaau's sixth-grade teacher (in the trailer for May December, it seems like Gracie might not have been a teacher, but it's unclear), and later gave birth to two children while in jail.
She and Fualaau were married for 14 years and separated in 2019; Letourneau passed away in 2020.Watch the first trailer, here:In addition to Portman, Moore, and Melton, includes Piper Curda, Cory Michael Smith, D.
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