Mary Kay Letourneau's ex-husband Vili Fualaau is speaking out about Todd Haynes' 'May December', saying no one reached out to him despite being the inspiration for the film. The film stars Julianne Moore, Charles Melton and Natalie Portman about an actress obsessively researching a married couple with a scandalous past. In the film, Joe is 13 when he is first seduced by Moore's character who is 36-year-old.
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00:00 Mary-Kay Latourneau's ex-husband, Villy Falau, is speaking out about Todd Haynes' May/December,
00:05 saying no one reached out to him despite being the inspiration for the film.
00:09 "I think about you all the time."
00:13 The film stars Julianne Moore, Charles Melton and Natalie Portman about an actress obsessively
00:19 researching a married couple with a scandalous past. In the film, Melton's character is 13 when
00:24 he is first seduced by Moore's character who is 36 years old. There are striking similarities
00:29 between the couple's story and the Mary-Kay Latourneau case, which May/December screenwriter
00:34 Sammy Birch has cited as her inspiration. Falau was just 12 when a 34-year-old Latourneau first
00:39 victimized him in 1996. Latourneau later pleaded guilty on two counts of child rape. There's also
00:45 a key scene in the film which features dialogue lifted directly from a televised interview with
00:50 Latourneau and Falau. However, Falau is saying no one involved in the Netflix-produced May/December
01:06 has ever reached out to him. "If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a
01:10 masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a rip-off of my original story." He
01:20 continued, "My story is not nearly as simple as this movie portrays."
01:24 The creative team behind the film has attempted to create space between the case and the film.
01:29 Birch stressed the case was only a "jumping off point" and Moore said, "This is not the
01:34 story of Mary-Kay Latourneau." However, director Haynes acknowledged that the case ultimately
01:38 informed his film. "There were times when it became very, very helpful to get very specific
01:43 about the research, and we learn things from that relationship." For more on this story,
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