Todd Haynes‘ ‘May December’ Suzanna repressed, from New York who prepare for her appearance as Elizabeth Berry, an actress who research a scandal-ridden couple.
Their story is similar to the case of May December screenwriter Samy Burch, who said that the basis for the story was the Mary Kay Letourneau story.
Ironically there will be no one from the entire cast and crew of may December, a Netflix production will never get to talk to Vili Fualaau whom the character of Charles Melton in the drama receives a Golden Globe nomination for portraying.
Julianne Moore’s character sexually abuses Joe at 13 though she is 36 years old in the movie. Fualaau was only 12 years when Letourneau first abused him in 1996. He wrote that Letourneau later pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape.
They also have other similar features. Both men are Asian/Pacific Islander — Joe is half-Korean, Fualaau is Samoan. Father children born in prison for both mother.
Both then marry their female abusers after the women have been imprisoned for committing the crimes. And a key May December scene features dialogue – “Who was the boss?” – that’s lifted from a televised interview Fualaau did with his mom.
Fualaau has seen May December and convinced from what he has seen is very disappointed with what he believes the media and Hollywood are doing to him and his story.
The one thing he does not seem to grasp most than anything though is why he was not called by the director of the movie, the screenwriter or even the actor who portrayed a character very much like him especially given the fact that the actor is considered an awards season darling.
In the film, Joe is 13 and he was firstly raped by Julianne Moore’s character who is 36 years old per the American film rating standard. His father’s wife, Fualaau, was only 12 when in 1996 Letourneau first sexually molested him. Letourne tonpletted guilty to two counts of child rape later on.
Despite that one my still be disoriented by the scandal’s details, 40-year old Fualaau insists that he is not only still kicking but also thriving. ‘Had they contacted me, we could sit down together and create a classic.’ But instead what they had decided to do was copy my story, just mimic it, do a knockoff of it.
“I’m offended by the entire project and the lack of respect given to me — who lived through a real story and is still living it,” he adds.
Fühlender in 2020 durch Krebs star Letourneau, während Fualaau an ihrem Bett. Another two years later, Fualaale performed the unthinkable; he had fathered another child from another woman. In September he found that Georgia, one of the two daughters he fathered with Letourneau, is pregnant with his child, making him a grandfather.
His life story has been a drama, and Fualaau is perfectly fine with someone developing a brilliant motion picture about it. However May December is not it, he feels.
“I love movies — good movies,” he says. “And I appreciate ones that depict essence and aspects of real life issues. Ah, you know, Films where there is something, which one sees or learns every time one watches the movie.
“Those kinds of writers and directors — someone who can do that — would be perfect to work with, because my story is not nearly as simple as this movie [portrays],” Fualaau notes.
Many films and dramas produced by Hollywood discourage the direct involvement of the actual people or turn a blind eye to the related incidents on which the work to be produced is based with actual people, which otherwise leads to controversies or a certain level of restrictions.
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