Pamela Andersonis once again staring into a handheld video camera, more exposed than ever.
and “Have you ever been paid for sex?”
and implies her posing forPlayboywas a “sex act.”
Lily James on the set of ‘Pam & Tommy’.Erin Simkin/Hulu
The honeymoon is definitely over.
“It’s a satire.
A dark look at what happened and the s— show around this whole event that transpired.
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A lot about it spoke to me and it feels timely.”
But after reading the first two scripts and talking withPam & Tommyshowrunners Robert Siegel and D.V.
DeVincentis about where all eight episodes would go, theMamma Mia!sequel star was hooked on the challenge.
There were bigger themes in it beyond the [scandal].
I was on board pretty fast."
The extreme response made the showrunners even more certain James was the perfect choice.
“Pam has this strength and resilience and playfulness and sweetness and innocence and toughness.
“I’m like, ‘You’re completely missing the point.
“Then, that was all I could think about.
I started watchinga lotofBaywatch.”
She also bought a blond wig and wore it in her daily life even when running errands to CVS.
She worked with a trainer and gained more confidence in her body.
That deposition sequence is so upsetting.
That episode was really hard to shoot.
Hannah Fidell directed it, and we all really understood how sensitive it is.
It’s heartbreaking to see that she had no control over it.
Not even years from now.
Not even the trailer.”
(Stan, meanwhile, spoke with Lee to discuss the role).
“I do wish things had been different and that she wanted to be involved,” James says.
As for what she would’ve asked Anderson?
“I’d have to really think about that.
I wouldn’t even be able to say now.”
It makes me angry and disheartened.
It hasn’t changed enough, and it needs to.
It’s not right, and it’s not fair.”
“I think that was very purposeful,” James says.
We didn’t want to go beyond that and I think that was right."
The first six episodes ofPam & Tommyare now streaming on Hulu.
A version of this story appears in the March issue ofEntertainment Weekly, on newsstands now.
