Shock comes with the territory forPam & Tommy.
But episode 2 bares all in a scene that showrunners Rob Siegel and D.V.
“It came from Tommy Lee himself, his memoirTommyland.
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His penis is a character in the book.
The idea to bring that to life onPam & Tommywas just too good to pass up.
“I felt like that gave us the green light.
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I like to think that could have actually happened at least, in his mind.
But there was always a looming fear that the outrageous scene would eventually get cut.
And producers indeed faced some pushback.
Sebastian Stan and Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in ‘Pam & Tommy’.Erin Simkin/Hulu
I don’t know who sweet talked who, but there was a yes.”
The secret to getting it onscreen despite its outrageous visual?
“That’s not actually Sebastian Stan’s dick,” Siegel says.
I can’t think of a more fun and cuddly way to get away with extended full-frontal male nudity.
It’s a puppet, it’s like Yoda.”
“From the start, we always wanted it to be an animatronic dick.”
Siegel pauses before adding, “Most of these sentences have never been uttered.
I’ve never done anything quite like that.”
And the absurdity of it, obviously.
But I felt that Sebastian is so talented that I knew he’d keep the audience invested."
“With the whole green screen world of Marvel, it probably wasn’t that unfamiliar.
And he was amazing.
You’d never know this was his first rodeo with a talking dick.
It was effortless.”
“We batted around your DiCaprios.
“I remember he was just somebody that we all pretty quickly agreed on.
“It actually does mean something.
It’s a conversation you’d have with … well, your best friend.”
“Ultimately loves trumps all, even a talking dick.
That’s the crazy thing, not talking to your dick about it.
And in the realm of our show, it’s not the craziest thing to happen.”
“I think we landed on the best version of it.”
The first three episodes ofPam & Tommyare now streaming on Hulu.
