MariskaHargitay is reclaiming her family's story.
In the trailer for her directorial film debut, My Mom Jayne, which chronicles the life of Hargitay's mother Jayne Mansfield, the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit actress opens up about her mother's status as a sex symbol.
"I've spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex symbol," Hargitay, 61, says in the trailer. "Her career made me want to do it differently, but I want to understand her now."
When Hargitay was three years old, she and her two older brothers survived a car crash that killed Mansfield, 34, in 1967. The film will premiere on Max on June 27, just two days before the 58th anniversary of Mansfield's death.
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"I don't have any memories of her," Hargitay says in the trailer. "And then my dad died in 2006. I've never talked to my siblings about their experiences,"
Hargitay's sister Jayne Marie Mansfield and brothers Mickey Hargitay Jr., Zoltan Hargitay, and Tony Cimber are all featured in the film.
"I don't know how the hell you got me to do this," Mickey Jr. says in the trailer with a laugh.
"I know you're not a fan of talking about this stuff." Mariska responds.
In the clip, Mariska tells her sister, Jayne Marie, that she is "envious" of all the memories her elder sister shared with their mother.
"In the beginning, I had her to myself," Jayne Marie says. "She'd take me everywhere."
The siblings discussed how the Hollywood bombshell's public image differed greatly from the mother they knew, with Zoltan saying that their mother's pin-up persona was a "character" and Mickey Jr. adding she actually was "really smart."
Later on in the trailer, speaking to her youngest brother Tony, Mariska says that she's "heard things that are really ugly."
"I don't know that I want to know those ugly things," Tony responds.
Mariska also addressed family secrets in the trailer, saying she's realized that "keeping a secret doesn't honor anyone." The secret in question being her biological paternity.
During the premiere of My Mom Jayne at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, Mariska revealed in the documentary that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her, but rather former Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli.
As the trailer comes to an end, Mariska says that she set out on this journey because "Reclaiming our family story, that is what this is about for me. Because she's a part of me. I want to know her as Jayne. My mom Jayne."
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