Mariska Hargitay Addresses Family Secret in New Documentary Trailer

The rest of the trailer features clips from interviews with Mariska’s siblings who had more years with her mother, who, “at home, was just Jayne,” according to Mariska’s sister. (The late Playboy playmate was also mom to Jayne Marie Mansfield, 74, with Paul Mansfield; Mickey Hargitay, Jr., 66, and Zoltan Hargitay, 64, with Mickey; and Tony Cimber, 59, with Matt Cimber.)

And Mariska also let her mother speak for herself, using clips from her mom on talk shows to demonstrate how her mother was more than the sex symbol she was often reduced to.

The Emmy winner’s voiceover begins the trailer with, “I’ve spent years distancing myself from my mother,” as she goes through old items of her mother’s. Following a clip of Jayne sharing, “I use my pin-up type publicity to get my foot in the door,” Mariska alludes to Jayne’s sex symbol legacy as she explains, “Her career made me want to do it differently. But I want to understand her now.”

The trailer ends with the overarching theme of the documentary, where Mariska states, “Reclaiming my 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.”

Mariska originally announced the documentary on April 8, where she wrote in a press release, “This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth.”