Julianne Moore says her subsequent film flip comes with a “danger” warning.
The flame-haired Oscar winner is tackling inappropriate age gaps on the massive display screen with fellow heavyweight Natalie Portman in on the act.
May December is loosely based mostly on the actual life scandal of Mary Kay Letourneau, a faculty instructor who had an affair together with her scholar which started when he was 12 years previous.
The Todd Haynes flick follows Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman), who travels to Maine to analysis the lifetime of a former tabloid-plagued lady, Gracie Atherton-Yoo.
Set when Atherton-Yoo is twenty years youthful, at first look it appears she lives a daily life as a housewife, albeit with a much-younger husband, Joe Yoo (Charles Melton), elevating their youngsters. However, the not-so-regular relationship started 20 years in the past. She was 36; he was 13. Consequently, Atherton-Yoo was convicted of rape and went to jail.
“The reason this movie feels so dangerous, I think, watching it is that people don’t know where anyone’s boundaries are,” Moore says.
“And so it feels scary. Like when you’re in a social situation and somebody does something wildly inappropriate, you’re like, ‘Why do I feel so uncomfortable? I really feel uncomfortable. I want to get out of here’. It’s because someone has transgressed a social boundary, or an emotional boundary, and you feel unsafe.”
The main actress says the director is banking on that feeling to maneuver audiences with the taboo story.
“And that’s what I think Todd has captured so beautifully in this film, and I think that is what is most compelling to me. And also, it didn’t seem to be apparent initially. When I first read the script, I was like, ‘Oh, okay’. And then you get into it and you’re like, ‘Wow, this feels dangerous’. But it is about that kind of transgression.”
Discussing the age hole, Moore says, “It’s inappropriate when people are in different places developmentally. When someone is not an adult. Then you’re like, ‘Well, this is not appropriate’ and this is why we have boundaries around that. That doesn’t mean that people don’t transgress, and that people haven’t transgressed historically, even in terms of arranged marriages and stuff that we would deem now to be wildly inappropriate. But that’s why human beings have boundaries.”
Moore says she and Portman mixed their Hollywood expertise to navigate the difficult job.
“The movie came together very quickly; it was sort of a rush of excitement,” the 62-year-old star mentioned. “I think that everyone was so excited to work on this, so excited to work with each other. Natalie and I in particular, we have a kind of interesting symbiotic relationship, and a lot of her character is based on her observations of my character. Natalie and I were able to spend time with each other. We were able to work on these scenes together.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
