“We had departments that, like, mine for these things. Adam Ray, who portrays the former late-night host, didn’t give a work-for-word transcript of the actual interview, partially because it was so difficult to find the footage. One of those moments came in the form of an interview she did with Jay Leno, during which he uncomfortably asks her about everything but the movie she’s promoting. I'm sure Anderson's closest friends would beg to differ, given their closeness to the phenom being depicted, especially since the former Playboy Playmate opted not to be involved with the production.“Additionally, there’s a multitude of press moments where you have Pam straddling the delicate fence of trying to placate and appease and play the game, because she has a career and she’s a human who has worked her whole life to make a livelihood and then all of a sudden, this thing that has become out of control is jamming its foot into her success,” Bell adds. It’s almost strange to call Lily James’ work in Pam & Tommy a performance, since she essentially just becomes creator Robert Siegel’s version of Pamela Anderson, with the show’s version of events being adapted from journalist Amanda Chicago Lewis’ 2014 article. Without getting into spoilers on everything that happens in the show regarding Lily James blowing minds in Anderson’s iconic Baywatch swimsuit, nor how Barb Wire fully factors into the on-screen tale, it inspired my desire to see Lily James fronting a shot-for-shot Barb Wire remake, even though I know literally no one in the universe has enough spare time (or anything else) to make that a logical plan. A huge amount of, obviously, pressure and responsibility, but it was just very surreal and really quite thrilling. And Baywatch was, I mean, it was amazing. It's got so much energy and it was just really, really wild. We did that section with Lake Bell, who was one of the directors. When CinemaBlend spoke with James (and co-star Sebastian Stan) about Hulu's already acclaimed new series, I asked her to talk about taking that multi-level approach, and as seen in the video above, she told me: Parker" or "Barbara Kopetski," but it still created an interesting acting situation for Lily James to put her acting skills to work in trying to show off Anderson's own talents. No one is going to argue that there were leagues of performatory distance between Pam & Tommy's "Pamela Anderson" and "C.J. And for James, some of those scenes required performances wrapped up inside of other performances, as it went in episodes that recreated moments from Anderson's most high-profile projects in the '90s: the global smash TV drama Baywatch and the cult fave Barb Wire. (Sorry, Seth Rogen’s butt-nasty mullet, you came in second.) As the titular coupling of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, the two actors make an absolute meal out of every scene they're in across the based-on-real-life saga. As high quality as everything is within the world of Hulu's new limited series Pam & Tommy, inarguably its biggest strength is the combined acting prowess of its two stars Lily James and Sebastian Stan.
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