As Mariska Hargitay tells Joy Press, she used to fall asleep in therapy anytime she wandered too close to painful events. Eventually, the Law & Order: SVU star’s therapist suggested that her sleepiness might be a defense mechanism against trauma. In order to dismantle it, Hargitay would finally have to process the shame she felt about her sex symbol mother, Jayne Mansfield, and let go of the dark secret about her paternity that she’d been guarding for decades. So Hargitay made My Mom Jayne—an emotional documentary that premiered May 17 at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and will air Friday, June 27 on HBO and HBO Max. In an exclusive conversation, Hargitay unpacks her complicated feelings about Mansfield and reveals for the first time that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her—and whom she calls “my everything, my idol.”
Elsewhere in HWD, David Canfield chats with Worst Person in the World director Joachim Trier about his new film, Sentimental Value;Richard Lawson cheers Wes Anderson’s latest diorama comedy, The Phoenician Scheme;photographer Mathieu César presents his latest portraits of celebrities, such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Stewart, at Cannes; and Anthony Breznican talks The Last of Us with game cocreator Neil Druckmann, who also directed the HBO adaptation’s latest episode.
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