![]() That’s the thing that I’m not particularly interested in as a director,” says Haynes. ![]() “A lot of narrative filmmaking and fiction-making has an internal desire to redeem oneself through the process, to sort of affirm one’s own aims. Questions of identity and artifice have run through Haynes’ filmography, including the sumptuous ‘50s romance “Carol,” the Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama “Far from Heaven” and his most recent film, the documentary “The Velvet Underground.” In Portman, he found an actor who shared a similar approach to film. Gracie isn’t very different in certain ways from Mary Kay Letourneau, a Washington State schoolteacher who went to prison after a relationship with a boy in her sixth grade class. “May December” has some unofficial roots in reality. ![]() “We’re using lies to tell the truth, and it’s magic.” ![]() “When you explore all those layers - playing someone who’s playing someone, making a movie of a movie in a movie - there’s so many layers of artifice, and what truth we can get out of artifice - which is the kind of alchemy of what we do,” adds Portman. ![]() “It poses a lot of the questions I’m most obsessed by about performance, about the purpose of art, about innocence,” says Portman, also a producer on the film. ![]()
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