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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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00:00Mary Kay Letourneau's ex-husband, Vili Folau, is speaking out about Todd Haynes' May December,

00:05saying no one reached out to him despite being the inspiration for the film.

00:09I think about you all the time.

00:13The film stars Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, and Natalie Portman,

00:17about an actress obsessively researching a married couple with a scandalous past.

00:22In the film, Melton's character is 13 when he is first seduced by Moore's character, who is 36 years old.

00:27There are striking similarities between the couple's story and the Mary Kay Letourneau case,

00:32which May December screenwriter Sammy Birch has cited as her inspiration.

00:36Folau was just 12 when a 34-year-old Letourneau first victimized him in 1996.

00:41Letourneau later pleaded guilty on two counts of child rape.

00:45There's also a key scene in the film which features dialogue lifted directly from a televised interview with Letourneau and Folau.

00:52I'm talking about you.

00:54Who was the boss?

00:55I don't know what was I.

00:56Who was the boss?

00:57What?

00:58Who was the boss back then?

00:58You know, there was me pursuing you.

01:00Who was the boss back then?

01:02However, Folau is saying no one involved in the Netflix-produced May-December has ever reached out to him.

01:07If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece.

01:11Instead, they chose to do a rip-off of my original story.

01:14People, they like see me as a victim.

01:18I wanted it.

01:19He continued,

01:20The creative team behind the film has attempted to create space between the case and the film.

01:29Birch stressed the case was only a jumping-off point, and Moore said this is not the story of Mary Kayla Torno.

01:35However, director Haynes acknowledged that the case ultimately informed his film.

01:40There were times when it became very, very helpful to get very specific about the research, and we learn things from that relationship.

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