'May December' director Todd Haynes said at the New York Film Festival that Julianne Moore took the late Mary Kay Letourneau's speech patterns as a 'kick-off' point for creating her character's speaking voice and she 'took it further'
), comes to town to research their relationship as she prepares to portray Gracie in a new movie about the scandal. Elizabeth's prodding into their lives causes Joe to rethink his dynamic with Gracie.
"To be honest, there were things in kind of a loose upper palate that we did find interesting in Mary Kay Letourneau's speech that was a kick-off for her. And she took it further," said Haynes, 62, of frequent collaborator Moore coming up with Gracie's speaking voice."Also 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?" he continued of the character.
"But it's shrouded in a fantasy," said Haynes, "which is that she is the princess that needs to be rescued from the domestic tower, and he's the young, virile knight, almost like a Greco-Roman young knight, who's gonna come in with all this sexual virility and power and beauty and save her. And so she plays the little girl."
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