Marley Mattelin She looks at her two -year troubled relationship with the actor William Hurt And what I called “habit of abuse”.
Mattelin, 59, met Hert, who He died in 2022 at the age of 71During the filming of the eighties movie The younger sons of God. Sarah, a deaf woman who is in love with her pronunciation teacher, James (Hunt). The role fell to it Academy Award for Best ActressThis makes her the first deaf actress to win the award ever.
Hunt was the one that made the show that night, and Mattelin said she was afraid to ascend to the theater and accept the Academy Award.
“I was afraid when I went up the stairs for the Academy Award.” Marley Mattelin: I'm not alone anymoreA new documentary on her life was first shown at the Sandans Film Festival this month. “I was afraid because I knew inside me that he was not happy. Because I saw the look at his face, and my thinking was:”-! “
Mattelin described her approaching theater, hesitation and fear of taking the award from the hands of her boyfriend.
“I wish it was different.” “I wish I had shown my joy. But I was afraid because he was standing there.”
This is not the first time that Mattelin has talked about that night. in Dave CarrgerBook 2024, 50 Oscar NightsMattelin remembered the exchange she made with Hert, who reduced her achievement.
“So you have this little man next to you. What makes you think you deserve it? '' I remembered his saying. “I looked at him like,” What do you mean? He said: “Many people work for a long time, especially those who have been nominated with them, for many years to get what I got in one movie.”
The documentary also displays the sign language translator Jack JasonWho narrated an accident with the two on a private plane. He claimed that Mattelin was in a room with Heret and came out with a black eye.
The younger sons of God exit Randa Heinz Remember to see alleged bruises on Mattelin while filming.
She claimed: “I saw that they were quarreling and fighting.” “I remember once I noticed a bruise. But I didn't know. No one felt that he had a license to enter into a special relationship, comment on it, or ask questions about it.
Hainz also talked about how Heret “was telling a joke and turning his back to (Mattelin) so that she could not see.”
“I tried to understand what was happening.” “But I saw that she was suffering from it.”
Before his death, Hert said he had apologized to Mustin.
He said in a statement: “What I remember is that we apologized and did a lot to heal our lives.” and! news In 2009. Of course, I apologized for any pain it caused. I know that we have grown alike. I wish Marley and her family only good. ”