One thing eagle-eared Todd Haynes fans might have noticed in the trailer for his new film “May December”? Julianne Moore’s lisp.The actress, who previously starred in Haynes’ films like “Safe” and “Far from Heaven,” plays Gracie Atherton-Yoo, a predatory woman married to a man with whom she started a relationship when he was a young teenager years ago.
Now, in the present day, Natalie Portman plays an actress, Elizabeth Berry, studying Gracie to play her in an upcoming movie.
That includes mimicking Gracie’s mannerisms, including a slight speech impediment.As Haynes explained at a Friday morning press conference ahead of the campy melodrama‘s opening night premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, Moore’s character is based on Mary Kay Letourneau.
She’s the since-deceased teacher who went viral in the mid-1990s for having an affair with a 12-year-old boy, whom she ended…
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