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Hargitay sees a hyperlink between the familial silence-breaking of My Mom Jayne and her work together with her Joyful Heart Foundation, a nonprofit for survivors of sexual assault, home violence, and little one abuse. In 2017 she produced I Am Evidence, a documentary about hundreds of unprocessed rape kits languishing in America’s police lockers. Last yr, she revealed that she had been raped by a pal throughout her 30s. “That was my own parallel journey with shame and not wanting to carry that anymore,” she says, “wanting for so long to be free of [the secret].”
I Am Evidence (directed by Trish Adlesic, who additionally coproduced My Mom Jayne, and Geeta Gandbhir) made Hargitay fall in love with filmmaking, and she or he plans to make extra documentaries. “That’s one of the things I’m carving out in my future at SVU, making sure that I can have the balance.” When I ask in regards to the destiny of tv’s longest-running character, she clutches her coronary heart. “I’m not done with Olivia Benson yet,” she replies. “She’s got more work to do.”
For now, although, Hargitay is making ready herself for My Mom Jayne’s premiere at Cannes. Mansfield appeared on the competition in 1958, forsaking a path of glamorous pictures. There’s Mansfield posing in a bikini with a chihuahua; Mansfield waving from the airplane steps; Mansfield in a robe going through a wall of photographers—at all times smiling, at all times in character as Jayne Mansfield, bombshell. “The fact that I get to take her back and to tell her story there, I just don’t have the words,” Hargitay tells me, vibrating with nervous pleasure. As we end our dialog, she thinks about every part it took to get her thus far. “Thirty years, and now it’s coming out.… It’s wild.” She beams so onerous, I fear that her cheeks would possibly explode. “I feel like I’m seven!”
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