She’s just completed two months of shooting around Los Angeles, at locations that ranged from San Pedro junkyards to the cavernous birthplace of the Spruce Goose at the former Hughes Aircraft Co. Now she’s in the process of actually making that leap from the little screen to the big one, with the eponymous lead role in a modestly budgeted feature that’s been virtually built around her participation. You’re all gussied up, and other people just in their sweats and jeans in the back in the backstage area.”īell wanted to shine a light on the dynamic between star and audience in that atmosphere, noting that “in theory, the person of note or the person in the public image is higher status, but in that moment, you feel like you’re on display in a way that makes you feel low status.Near the bustling sets where the futuristic action flick “Barb Wire” is being filmed, a sign on the star’s dressing trailer warns off visitors with a single forbidding word: “Mayhem.” But inside that trailer, Pamela Anderson, the notably curvaceous co-star of TV’s “Baywatch,” turns out to be a friendly and gracious hostess.Īnderson first got noticed as the Tool Time Girl on “Home Improvement” and has since become an internationally recognized icon-in-a-swimsuit thanks to the wild and improbable worldwide success of “Baywatch.” She created some of the biggest press frenzies at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, making appearances to promote “Barb Wire” before she’d even begun work on the film. In that moment, everyone’s being nice and doing their job and there’s some people who are just treating you like a piece of utility.
“I campaigned to have that built in, to allow for that walk.
And for me, I said, ‘Look, I’ve got to be honest, just from my own personal experience, part of the intensity of doing these things is that walk.’ It’s the walk from your dressing room, to backstage, where people touch your body and touch you to see if the mic is OK. “In the way that it was written in script, it went from inside Pam’s dressing room and the next scene is she was on stage and doing the interview. The director, who has been in the industry for two decades, put her own exposure to the media into the episode as well. Bell says, “They had more of a platonic, kind of familial rapport but and then there he was just playing his game and doing his job at the expense of her cooperation, which in that moment, I think is pretty apparent.” His mimicry was incredible.”īell also wanted to display the relationship between Leno and Anderson, since in real life, they had a friendship - and she felt a sense of betrayal when he began poking fun at her. The gentleman who plays Jay Leno, is uncanny. “We watched what we could find of that interview. One of the greatest miner of Pamela Anderson was Lily James, because every day, every second - on set and off set - she had her earbuds in, listening to interviews, mapping the cadence, the musicality and the resonance, the quirks, intricacies of that particular voice, and how Pam was under pressure. “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.
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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. “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.
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