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Perhaps You Didn’t Know Pamela Anderson Is a Cinephile
The Golden Globe-nominated star of “The Last Showgirl” is a Criterion Channel fan. “I watch every night before I go to bed. I love Godard and Fellini and Herzog and Cassavetes.”
“There’s always an obstacle to great things,” Pamela Anderson said, recalling how the script for “The Last Showgirl” almost slipped through her fingers.
Gia Coppola, the film’s director, had watched Anderson’s 2023 documentary, “Pamela, a Love Story,” and recognized in the “Baywatch” star “a woman aching to express herself as an artist, and just brimming and bursting at the seams,” Anderson said.
But the actress’s now former agent turned the role down without her knowledge. So Coppola went to Anderson’s son Brandon Thomas Lee, who saw a part his mother would excel in. And she did. The drama, about a veteran Las Vegas dancer whose show abruptly closes, has earned her critical acclaim and her first Golden Globe nomination.
“I think being a part of pop culture is a blessing, but it also can be a little bit of a curse,” Anderson said. “You start at a deficit, so you feel like you have to explain yourself so much before you even get the opportunity to transform.”
Anderson called “The Last Showgirl” healing after raising two sons while being objectified and often devalued in her career.
“I felt like all of my life experience was worth it because I was able to bring it into this character and then step away from it and think, OK, I can let that go now,” she said.
