How May December Could Repeat Oscars History 22 Years Later

Since it isn’t the first collaboration between director Todd Haynes and actor Julianne Moore, May December is poised to repeat Oscars history 22 years after the pair’s first team-up. In May December, Natalie Portman plays Elizabeth Berry, an actor who travels to Savannah, Georgia to meet the controversial Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore). Tasked with portraying a film version of Gracie — a predator inspired by the real-life story of Mary Kay Letourneau — Elizabeth becomes enmeshed in the Atherton-Yoo family. Infamously, Gracie has been in a 23-year-long relationship with her now-husband Joe (Charles Melton), who was a minor when Gracie preyed on him.