Breaking News:Netflix Announces premiere Mariska Hargitay documentary unveiling behind scenes program legacy
On Tuesday, April 8, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star said that she has been working on a documentary called My Mom Jayne, which would tell the story of her late mother, Jayne Mansfield, a legendary figure in Hollywood.
The film, which will debut in June, is characterized by “strength in vulnerability,” according to a joint Instagram post by HBO and Hargitay, 61. The documentary is about Hargitay “embracing… the mother she never knew.”
Hargitay directs her first feature picture, My Mom Jayne. About 57 years after her mother’s untimely passing, the veteran actress set out to get to know Mansfield as an adult. April 19 would have been Mansfield’s 92nd birthday.
This film is the result of a lot of love and desire. According to Hargitay, it is a quest for the mother I never knew, the reclaiming of my mother’s tale and my own reality, and the integration of a part of myself that I had never claimed. “I have always thought that vulnerability can be strength, and the process of creating this movie has reinforced that conviction more than ever.”
The project will see Hargitay — through personal interviews and a compilation of never-before-seen photographs and home videos — “grapple with her mother’s public and private legacy and discover the layers and depth of who Jayne was, not only to her audience but to those who were closest to her.” Hargitay and her two older brothers survived the 1967 car accident that killed Mansfield, who was only 34 at the time, when she was just three years old.
