The now 40-year-old man who inspired the character of Charles Melton (Golden Globe nominee) wonders why Todd Haynes' team didn't approach him.
Published yesterday at 2:19 p.m.
Vili Fualaau, the former student of Professor Mary Kay Letourneau, whose American tabloids made a splash in the 1990s, reacted to the Netflix film starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman.
“I'm offended,” the man who inspired the character of Charles Melton in Todd Haynes' film “May December,” a four-time Golden Globes nominee next Sunday, told the Hollywood Reporter. The man wonders why production never saw fit to contact him before filming.
“I'm still alive and in good health,” said Fualaau, who has been remarried since Letourneau's death and still lives in Seattle, where the scandal surrounding their relationship occurred when he was a minor. ” If [la production] If I had reached out, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to reproduce my original story. »
At the film's premiere in Los Angeles in November, screenwriter Samy Burch emphasized that the case was merely a “starting point.” For her part, actress Julianne Moore said, “This is not the story of Mary Kay Letourneau.”
But on the red carpet, Todd Haynes admitted that the Letourneau affair had been a source of inspiration. His film also has some similarities with the real story. “There have been times when being very specific in research has been very helpful, and we have learned something from that relationship,” he added.
Ironically, May December questions the very difficulty of conveying the truth in a novel based on a true story…