Mariska Hargitay will make her directorial debut this June with My Mother Jayne, a documentary about her mom/actress Jayne Mansfield.
The Regulation & Order: SVU star was solely three years previous when her mom died at 34 in a automotive accident. The movie follows Hargitay as she seeks to know, perceive, and embrace her mom for the primary time. By way of interviews and a group of never-before-seen photographs and residential films, Hargitay navigates her mom’s private and non-private legacy.
Mansfield, a Golden Globe winner, was an actress and intercourse image within the ’50s and ’60s. She was additionally a singer and a classically educated pianist and violinist.
“This film is a labor of affection and longing. It’s a seek for the mom I by no means knew, an integration of part of myself I’d by no means owned, and a reclaiming of my mom’s story and my very own fact,” Hargitay stated in a press release. “I’ve all the time believed there’s energy in vulnerability, and the method of creating this movie has confirmed that perception like by no means earlier than.”
Hargitay can also be producing the HBO Unique doc with Trish Adlesic. Lauren Bromley serves as government producer.
Beforehand, Hargitay and Adlesic produced HBO’s Emmy-winning documentary I Am Proof.
