May December Quotes
May December is an incredible movie that explores performance and exploitation while balancing surreal melodrama with humane perception. Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton. Directed by Todd Haynes. The film’s release date is December 1, 2023.
May December 2023 Movie Quotes
Elizabeth: Your responsibility, ultimately, is to yourself.
Gracie: I am naive. I always have been. In a way, it’s been a gift.
Elizabeth: You’d never admit it to one another, but you’re wearing practically nothing and you’re rubbing up against each other … and sweating … and it’s for hours, and you start losing the line of, like, am I pretending that I’m experiencing pleasure, or am I pretending that I’m not experiencing pleasure?
Student: How do you choose your roles?
Elizabeth: Well, when I’m lucky enough to choose my roles, I want to find a character that’s … That’s difficult to, on the surface, understand. I want to take the person, I want to figure out why are they like this. Were they born, or were they made? And that can run the gamut from the more notorious to the … Just anyone.
May December
2023
Quotes from May December 2023 Film on Netflix
Elizabeth: It’s the complexity. It’s the moral grey areas that are interesting, right?
Mary: Why would you want to play someone who you think is a bad person?
Elizabeth: Are you kidding? I mean, pick any great role. Medea or Hedda Gabler, or …
Joe: She saw me. I wanted it.
Joe: Then what was this about?
Elizabeth: This is just what grown-ups do.
Gracie: You understand me?
Elizabeth: I do.
Gracie: I hope you didn’t think that disgusting brother thing was real.
Elizabeth: What?
Gracie: It’s disgusting. I don’t know what he’s doing telling you these things.
Quotes from May December Movie
Elizabeth: I could see how being in a relationship with him, in a marriage, would be isolating.
Gracie: Precisely.
Joe: People … they, like, see me as, like, a victim, or something. I mean, we’ve been together for almost 24 years now. Like … Why would we do that if we weren’t happy?
Cameron: Have you acted in sex scenes?
Teacher: You are staying late.
Cameron: Yes, I have.
Teacher: You don’t have to answer.
Elizabeth: No, it’s fine. I have. And it’s a strange part of acting.
Cameron: Like what?
Elizabeth: Well … sometimes it’s really mechanical, like a choreographed dance, you know, where the only thing you can focus on is where you’re supposed to be, and when. And then sometimes there’s real chemistry between two people and you start feeling like it’s real. In a strange way.
Cameron: Have you acted in sex scenes?
Teacher: You are staying late.
Cameron: Yes, I have.
Teacher: You don’t have to answer.
Elizabeth: No, it’s fine. I have. And it’s a strange part of acting.
Cameron: Like what?
Elizabeth: Well … sometimes it’s really mechanical, like a choreographed dance, you know, where the only thing you can focus on is where you’re supposed to be, and when. And then sometimes there’s real chemistry between two people and you start feeling like it’s real. In a strange way.
Plot May December (2023) movie
In 2015, actress Elizabeth Berry came to Savannah to research her upcoming role in an independent movie. In 1992, Gracie had sex with a 13-year-old schoolmate of her son Georgie. She went to prison and gave birth to Honor in jail. However, Gracie and Joe are married after twenty-three years and have three children: Honor and twins Charlie and Mary.
Elizabeth talks with Tom Atherton, Gracie’s ex-husband, and her son, Georgie, who is now a musician. Joe has a hobby, which is raising monarch butterflies. He offers Michaela a vacation together, but she rejects the idea because he is married. During the Q&A session, Elizabeth revealed that she likes to play people with questionable morals.
The whole family goes to the restaurant for dinner. Georgie proposes to tell secrets about his mother in exchange for a job. Eventually, he says that Gracie was abused by her brothers. It’s controversial because his mother reveals that she communicates with her brothers.
Elizabeth asks Joe to help with the nebulizer. He shows Gracie’s letter to him. Later, the actress seduces him and suggests starting a new life without an old wife. Joe realizes that he and his wife are just the story for a Hollywood star. He argues with Gracie about the beginning of their relationship. Although Joe was a teenager, Gracie claims Joe seduced her. Joe struggles because he wasn’t ready to be a father twenty years ago.
Elizabeth acts as a predator on the scene in the pet store stockroom. Every following variant is more evident about the intentions of the main character. Even when the director is satisfied with the result, Elizabeth insists on making one more shot. Finally, she says, “It’s getting more real.”
May December
2023
Cast:
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry
Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo
Charles Melton as Joe Yoo
Cory Michael Smith as Georgie Atherton
D. W. Moffett as Tom Atherton
Piper Curda as Honor Atherton-Yoo
Elizabeth Yu as Mary Atherton-Yoo
Gabriel Chung as Charlie Atherton-Yoo
Genre: drama
Release date: December 1, 2023
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