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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Netflix film “May December.”Fans of “May December” may be shocked to learn that the dialogue in one of the film’s most unsettling scenes is eerily similar to a real-life interview.The Netflix drama — which began streaming on Dec. 1 — stars Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, and is loosely inspired by the relationship between Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau.In 1996, Letourneau, a schoolteacher, began statutorily raping her sixth-grade student, Fualaau, when he was only 12 years old. Letourneau was 34. Despite Letourneau later pleading guilty to child rape and receiving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence, Letourneau and Fualaau managed to conceive two children together. After Letourneau was released from prison, the two got mar...

Todd Haynes first received the script for his latest movie, “May December,” from Natalie Portman during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With Hollywood and other industries shuttered, the director found himself drawn to the “pleasurable uncertainty” that the film’s two female protagonists relayed.“There was humor, and there was also darkness, and the way those things interwove was so masterfully done. Just when you thought you knew what you were thinking and feeling, the ground would shift,” Haynes told HuffPost. “Natalie and I started to talk about it, and we found so many commonalities about what attracted us to the material, from expectations about who these characters are to the judgments and moral groundings around these women.”“May December,” which opened in theaters...

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Real Interview That Inspired Disturbing ‘May December’ Scene Has Resurfaced Online

Director Todd Haynes Opens Up About New Film ‘May December’