Pamela Anderson Is Not Mad At Lily James For Starring In 'Pam & Tommy'
Pamela Anderson has no ill feelings for Lily James for starring in Disney+'s "Pam & Tommy."
"It's not her fault, it's a job," The "Baywatch" actress told The Guardian in a recent interview. "But whoever created it — well, it just feels like something else stolen."
The limited series follows Anderson's whirlwind romance with Tommy Lee (played by Sebastian Stan) that led to marriage after knowing each other only for 96 hours in 1995.
"I heard she'd been nominated for an Emmy but maybe that was a joke," Anderson added.
James actually earned an Emmy nomination for the controversial series in 2022, but she lost to Amanda Seyfried who bagged the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work in Hulu's "The Dropout."
"Pam & Tommy" is based on a 2014 Rolling Stone article titled "Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Sex Tape." It also tells the story of the infamous couple's sex tape that was stolen by disgruntled electrician Rand Gauthier while the couple was not in their Malibu home in 1995.
"After the tape was stolen, things got darker still," the "Barb Wire" actress also told The Guardian.
In a separate interview, Anderson insisted that she would "never watch" the documentary, which reportedly gave her nightmares upon hearing that a series about a tumultuous season in her life was being made.
"It really gives me nightmares. I didn't sleep last night at all," she said. "I have no desire to watch it, not going to watch it. I never watched the tape. I'm not going to watch this. Nobody really knows what we were going through at that time."
Before the series was released in February 2022, one of its writers, D.V. DeVincentis, said they reached out to Anderson several times throughout the development of all eight episodes but the actress never responded to them.
"We particularly wanted to let Pamela Anderson know that this portrayal was very much a positive thing and that we cared a great deal about her and wanted her to know that the show loves her," he told Entertainment Weekly. "We didn't get a response, but considering what she's been through and the time that we were reaching out, that was understandable."
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