While Mariska HargitayS documentary about her movie star mom Jayne MansfieldThe “My mother Jayne” – who died in a car accident when Hargitay was only three years old – just dropped on HBO MAX June 27, The “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” actress said she has “prepared for this (her) whole life.”
“Even when I was in, like (my) early, early twenty years, and my actor, Larry Moss – who is a brilliant man – in the class, we all said a story.” And one of the exercises in the class was to do it was like a man’s show – where you would write your story and then perform it in the class, ” Hargitay shared on “The View”. “And I saw such brilliant stories. Now I never made it back at the age of twenty for good reasons … but the fact that I could do it now is everything.”
“My Mamma Jayne” contains a number of revelations about both Mansfield and Hargitay, including the Mickey Hargitay-The Hungarian-born bodybuilder known for his lead role in “The Loves of Hercules”- Don’t be her biological father. Instead, it was Brazilian-Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, with which Mansfield had a deal while she got a divorce from Mickey.
“I still can’t believe the story has never come out,” Hargitay told Entertainment Weekly. “And I still believe that my story was somehow divinely protected, so I had to tell me it.”
The actress-who has played non-nonscupil Olivia Benson on “SVU” since the series began in 1999-Sa that her career has in many ways been a “unconscious rebellion” against the stereotypical role Her blond bomb shell mom Be boxed in. Mansfield’s career began in the wake of Marylin Monroe’s superstar, and both artists were under contract until the Fox of the 1900s.
“My father (Mickey Hargitay) … Always told me: ‘Nobody defines you. You decide. They don’t say who you are. You tell them.’ And it is something that I really give my children, and I want everyone to know, especially every small child … are there so many times we end up being reflected by our parents, ” Hargitay explained to the “The View” hosts. “He empowered me, and so when I was young, because I think he saw how (Mansfield) listened, maybe to the Wrong People, and How, of Course, He Saw How People Put Her in a Box… Because she was a girl from texas and did. That’s what she was her whole life. That’s what she dreamed of being. And they toured her into this… Limited sex symbol, and said, ‘that’s what you are.’
In the end, Hargitay said she saw her documentary as a “family story.”
“You would think … It’s a story about a Hollywood icon and lives in the 50s, and you would think it’s such a specific story. But … what I hope this movie gives is that of the personal, the universal,” Hargitay said. “And so even if it’s my mother’s story, and then it segrates into my story, it’s really a family story … My hope is that everyone sees themselves.”
