Mariska Hargitay has announced a special new project close to her heart – directing and producing a new film about her late mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield.
Hargitay, 61, who is best known her work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, said she feels “so proud” about the upcoming documentary film, titled My Mom Jayne.
Hargitay was just three years old when tragedy struck and her mother died in a car crash at the age of 34 in 1967.
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She said the project “is a place of meeting” for her and her late mother.
Underneath a black and white picture of the pair together, which she shared on Instagram, she wrote: “I feel grateful, fulfilled and so proud to share this film.”
“I never got to make a movie with my mom, and she never got to make the kind of movies she wanted to make.”
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“#MyMomJayne is a place of meeting for us, and words fail me to describe how meaningful it is to tell her story, my own, and ours together. @hbodocs
According to IMDb, Hargitay is a producer and director on the project. It’s believed it will come out later this year.
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“This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth,” she reportedly said in a release about the project.
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Mansfield, born Vera Jayne Palmer, was known for films including 1956’s The Girl Can’t Help It, Panic Button and Will Success Spil Rock Hunter? before her untimely death.
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She became a sex symbol in Hollywood before her death in a car crash in the early hours of the morning in 1967 while leaving Biloxi, Mississippi.
Hargitay previously told People about losing her mother and grieving her loss, saying: “The way I’ve lived with loss is to lean into it.”
“In my life, certainly I’ve tried to avoid pain, loss, feeling things. But I’ve learned instead to really lean into it, because sooner or later you have to pay the piper.”
Hargitay’s father was late Hungarian-American actor Mickey Hargitay, who died in 2006.
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