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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