Hulu’s miniseries “Pam & Tommy” earned Lily James an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination, however the actual Pamela Anderson has little interest in watching the actor’s efficiency. In a latest interview with the New York Times, Anderson mentioned that not solely did she have zero involvement with the sequence, she additionally refused to learn a letter James despatched explaining why she wished to play the “Baywatch” star.
According to Anderson, James despatched her a handwritten letter to let her know she wished to honor her in “Pam & Tommy.” But the 55-year-old opted to not learn it. “It was already hurtful sufficient the primary time,” Anderson mentioned of getting her non-public residence video stolen and bought. “It’s like a kind of issues the place you are going, ‘Really?’ People are nonetheless capitalizing off that factor?”
Knowing that Hollywood was going to inform her story with or with out her seems to have inspired Anderson to reclaim the narrative. In addition to releasing a brand new memoir, “Love, Pamela,” on Jan. 31, the activist and former mannequin additionally participated in a Netflix documentary about her life, “Pamela, a Love Story,” which is able to premiere on the identical day her e book is launched. In the trailer for the doc, Anderson shares her candid response to discovering out about “Pam & Tommy.”
“I blocked that stolen tape out of my life as a way to survive, and now that it is all arising once more, I really feel sick. I need to take management of the narrative for the primary time,” she says within the trailer. “Why cannot we be the heroes of our personal life story?”
While Anderson cannot deliver herself to observe the miniseries, James has maintained that her purpose in taking over the function of Anderson was to reframe the story from her standpoint. “It’s such a complicated, massive dialog,” James advised Gold Derby of enjoying an individual who remains to be alive in a July 2022 interview. “I nonetheless give it some thought. I nonetheless hope and pray I did her justice.”
She continued, “I finally simply needed to belief in understanding my intuition, and my intentions have been so good. I wished to share a narrative that individuals possibly weren’t conscious of. I wished to take a look at how girls are handled. I wished to look at the terrible double commonplace and what these violations actually do to folks. I felt like I used to be consistently strolling this tightrope as an empathetic human and as somebody who feels insecure.”