May December (2023) on Netflix
Elizabeth Berry comes to Savannah to research Gracie Atherton-Yoo, the woman she will play. Gracie's relationship with her husband Joe began when he was thirteen and she was thirty-six.
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Plot summary
Elizabeth Berry is an actress preparing for a role. She travels to Savannah to meet Gracie Atherton-Yoo, the woman she will portray, and to study her life and her family. Gracie is married to Joe Yoo. Their relationship began in 1992, when she was thirty-six and he was thirteen, and he was a schoolmate of her son Georgie. Gracie served a prison sentence for raping him and gave birth to Joe's child while she was locked up. She and Joe now have three children: Honor, at college, and the twins Charlie and Mary.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about May December (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Todd Haynes said May December is not a direct adaptation of the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, but that the case was "very, very helpful to get very specific about the research," and that the filmmakers "learned things from that relationship."
- Marcelo Zarvos's score is an adaptation and reorchestration of Michel Legrand's music for The Go-Between; Haynes played Legrand's score on set and during editing, and Zarvos added original music and re-orchestrated it.
- Cinematographer Edward Lachman, a longtime Todd Haynes collaborator, was initially going to shoot May December but was replaced by Christopher Blauvelt after Lachman injured his hip.
