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Starring: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, D.W. Moffett, Piper Curda, Elizabeth Yu, Gabriel Chung
Story:
Netflix drama directed by Todd Haynes. May December (2023) centers on Gracie Atherton-Yoo and Joe Yoo (Julianne Moore and Charles Melton), a married couple with a large age gap, who twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, buckle under the pressure when an actress, Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman), arrives to do research for a film about their past.
We’ll add the best quotes once the movie is released and we’ve had a chance to watch it, but for now, here’s a small selection.
Quotes:
Elizabeth Berry: How do you choose your roles? I want to find a character that’s difficult to, on the surface, understand. Were they born, or were they made?
Acting Student: Why would you want to play someone who you think is a bad person?
Elizabeth Berry: It’s the moral gray areas that are interesting.
Elizabeth Berry: It’s such a pleasure to meet you.
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: You are so sweet. We’re so happy to have you.
Elizabeth Berry: Thank you for doing this. It’s so generous.
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: Well, I want you to tell the story right, don’t I?
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: You’re taller. You look taller on television, but we’re basically the same size.
Elizabeth Berry: We’re basically the same.
Rhonda: Feels like things just settled down, and now y’all are making a movie.
Elizabeth Berry: It’s a very complex and human story.
Joe: I think it’s hard to trust that you’re going to represent Gracie as she was.
Elizabeth Berry: I’m going to try.
Elizabeth Berry: Do you remember when you first met?
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: [to Joe] You came to the pet store looking for a job.
Elizabeth Berry: The summer after sixth grade?
Joe, Gracie: Seventh.
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: Why do you want to play me?
Elizabeth Berry: When they sent me the script I thought, ”Here is a woman with a lot more to her than I remember from the tabloids.”
Tom Atherton: What would make a thirty-six year old woman have an affair with a seventh grader?
Joe: People, they like see me as a victim. I wanted it.
Elizabeth Berry: I already have an idea of what it must have felt like.
Joe: What?
Elizabeth Berry: Sneaking around with you. I probably shouldn’t have said that.
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: [referring to Elizabeth] She’s getting on my last nerve. She’s just everywhere I look.
Joe: [to Gracie] Why can’t we talk about it, if we’re really as in love as we say we are?
Gracie Atherton-Yoo: Insecure people are very dangerous, aren’t they?
Elizabeth Berry: You’re Gracie.
Elizabeth Berry: [mimicking Gracie] My love, I think about you. All the time.
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