Pamela Anderson had a disappointing time at the Golden Globe Awards. She says that sitting near Seth Rogen was awkward for her. And it is understandble why. The beloved comedian helped produce Pam & Tommy a couple of years ago, and those wounds have not healed.
Anderson attended the ceremony to present the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. But, she also told Andy Cohen about how awkward she felt being close to someone who, in her eyes, never made amends for putting her story out there again.
“Seth Rogen, he did that [series] without talking to me, you know Pam & Tommy, and that was another — I just felt like, ‘Eh.’ You know?” Anderson told the host. “Like how can someone make a TV series out of the difficult times in your life, and ‘I’m a living, breathing human being over here. Hello.’ ”
“I may have just felt like, ’I’m not chopped liver over here,’ ” Anderson shared. “I felt a little bit weird about it. And I felt like you know — I’ve been so busy working. I’ve done five movies in the last year. So, I’ve just been busy but sometimes it hits you and you feel kind of down.”
Pamela Anderson hasn’t forgotten Pam & Tommy
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Anderson has been super vulnerable talking about how the series made her feel. Back in 2023, she told Entertainment Tonight that there was no desire to watch the Hulu series. The Baywatch star said, “I never watched the tape, I’m never going to watch this.” All of this is frankly very relatable. Anderson had the worst moment of her life put out into the ether and then has to relive it all over again anytime someone boots up Hulu. It’s a lot to handle. But, thankfully, her kids have been helping her through it.
Our girl is booked and busy these days. She’s made 5 movies in recent months, so there are things that keep all this drama off her mind. But, even for a mega-star like Anderson, it doesn’t take much for your mind to wander.But, the actress is quite aware that her problems aren’t the biggest in the grand scheme. Anderson mused, “I mean there’s worse things going on in the world.” She would expand on how the dynamic changes for her being in a room full of contemporaries.
“I mean you’re kind of already tip-toeing around it. It’s so uncomfortable being around everybody there,” Anderson recalled. “I mean a lot of those people [are] even from Malibu days, so I still don’t feel like I belong in those rooms. I feel like, you know, uncomfortable.”
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The actor has signed on to star opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount Pictures’ untitled remake of Naked Gun, based on the crime spoof comedies that were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Akiva Schaffer is directing the comedy, which has a script by Dan Gregor, Doug Mand and Schaffer. The trio were behind the popular and Emmy-winning Disney+ movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
The original movie, written and directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker and based on their television series Police Squad! that lasted only six episodes, spoofed the tropes of police shows and films that had ingrained themselves into audience’s minds over the decades. It centered on an inept and clueless detective named Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielsen, who still somehow managed to solve the crime and save the day.
Plot details are being locked away with other police files but it known that Neeson is playing Drebin.
Anderson will be love interest, akin to the role played in the original by Priscilla Presley, with a mix of sexiness and goofiness.
Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via their company Fuzzy Door. Schaffer is exec producing along with Daniel M. Stillman.
Paramount has penciled a July 18, 2025 release for the feature.
Anderson is famously the Playboy model who parlayed her beauty into international stardom thanks to the syndicated hit, Baywatch. A sex tape scandal in the mid-1990s brought her a level of notoriety. She made her big-screen debut starring in Barb Wire, a high-profile adaptation of a Dark Horse Comics titled that bombed and was savaged by critics. She dusted herself off though and went on to lean into her image with shows such as V.I.P. and in horror movie spoof Scary Movie 3. She has also appeared in numerous reality TV series.
Anderson was back in the spotlight thanks to 2022’s high-profile Hulu mini-series Pam & Tommy, which featured Lily James as the Baywatch star and focused on the tumultuous sex tape era. She had her rebuttal with the Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story.
Her return now to a big-studio comedy opposite an Oscar-nominated actor is the latest marker of a winding and varied journey.
Anderson is repped by Independent Artist Group, Hanson Jacobson, and Boulevard Management.
For years it seems we’ve heard the story of Pamela Anderson. Blonde bombshell hair. Thorn arm cuff tattoo. Red bathing suit. Sex tape with Tommy Lee.
After incessant labeling of Pamela as a sex symbol and clamoring to see private videos that were sold online as blackmail, maybe the public got it wrong. With the recent release of Hulu’s Pam & Tommy – starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan – we see a Pamela who worked hard to be taken seriously as an actress when everyone kept sexualizing her. But the focus of the Hulu series still seems to be the release of the sex tape.
Now, Anderson has decided to tell her story for the first time ever in her documentary Pamela, a love story – on none other than Hulu’s rival streaming platform, Netflix.
“I blocked that stolen tape out of my life in order to survive, and now that it’s all coming up again, I feel sick. I want to take control of the narrative, for the first time,” she says in the preview.
Anderson may be a victim of being Woman’d, but that’s not stopping her from taking back her power – nice revenge for the Hulu series re-airing of her dirty laundry. In this new docu, the audience will see Pamela through new eyes, in her own words – something I’m sure no one’s seen before.
“I had to make a career out of the pieces left. But I’m not the damsel in distress. I put myself in crazy situations… and survived them. You have to be brave and you’ve gotta use what you got.”
Pamela, a love story premieres on Netflix January 31.
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