May December

In 2023 Haynes directed May December, a fictionalized account of the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal of the 1990s. Letourneau was a white married mother and schoolteacher in her 30s who was convicted of the second-degree child rape of her 12-year-old Samoan American student…

Among its other nominees were May December, The After, and El Conde.

…then reunited with Haynes for May December (2023), a drama in which she played a teacher who had an affair with her student. In 2024 Moore starred with Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar’s adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a dying woman who reconnects with an…

…then starred in Todd Haynes’s May December (2023), playing an actress researching her upcoming role of a teacher (played by Julianne Moore) who has an affair with a student.