Mariska Hargitay grapples with her mother's legacy in My Mom Jayne trailer
HBO will premiere Hargitay's Jayne Mansfield-focused documentary later this month.
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Many of today’s stars have wrestled with their status as nepo babies, but few have had quite as long a journey as Mariska Hargitay. “I’ve spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother,” the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star says in the trailer of her feature-length directorial debut, My Mom Jayne. “Her career made me want to do it differently, but I want to understand her now.”
She’s talking about legendary actress and “sex symbol” Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car accident at just 34 years old, leaving five children behind. Hargitay, her daughter, was three. In the trailer, the actress shares that she has no memories of her mother and has never talked to her siblings about their experiences with her. Now, nearly six decades after Mansfield’s death, she’s finally opening that door.
