Pamela Anderson seems like a ray of hope in Zurich
The former “Baywatch” star has also experienced the dark side of show business. Today she is entering a new phase of her career with energy and no make-up – with the amazing film “The Last Showgirl”. Gambling at the ZFF.
On Friday evening, Pamela Anderson received the Golden Eye.
A word that Pamela Anderson often uses during her visit to Zurich is “pop culture”. “I would love to be a part of pop culture,” says the 57-year-old, sitting in a vibrant white dress in a completely glamor-free cinema hall in Zurich’s Sihlcity on Saturday afternoon. . Her dress is a mix of polar bear fur and a Broadway musical and perfectly represents the arc of her life between the former animal rights activist and her new movie “The Last Showgirl”.
By pop culture she means a good time thirty years ago, pop music, that’s everything that was on TV or had space in a magazine back then, that is “Bravo”, MTV, Viva. These were series like “Baywatch” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” which shamefully showed beautiful young people from America doing jobs that always seemed like leisure time. Pop culture in the 90s was the post-modern world, the world before 9/11 – and Pamela Anderson was at the center of it.
“What’s wrong with a face without makeup?”
She was the lifeguard of CJ Parker for 110 episodes of “Baywatch”, she was the crowning blonde glory of hedonistic fun culture, always carrying buoys and breasts in front of her and popular with everyone because she was sexy and had an eccentric life her and at the same time the time was so nice, so nice Joy remained friendly. Her voice is the same today as it was then, that’s what it would sound like if the sun was falling on golden honey bread especially as she smiles at this very sweet touch.
Her Scandinavian heritage is much more visible to her today than it used to be; She doesn’t seem like CJ of the previous year; she could now star in an Astrid Lindgren film adaptation, perhaps an ironically young adult figure; her face speaks of many experiences and immense and all-encompassing joy. She looks like a ray of hope. Because Pamela Anderson stopped wearing makeup one day.
“What’s wrong with a face without makeup?” she asks. “I am my own experiment at a time when young women consume countless filtered faces on Instagram and are then disappointed when they look in the mirror.”
It suits her more natural lifestyle, as well as acting she now runs a farm on Vancouver Island, her hands look very gardening, she is a dedicated gardener and cook and she enjoys being with her sons Brandon and Dylan her (since the relationship with Tommy Lee) to do anything for her. Which surprises her a little: “I never had a nanny, they were always with me everywhere, and maybe it was a mistake. I’m afraid they’ve seen enough.”
A true family business
Last year, Netflix screened Brandon’s documentary “Pamela, a Love Story,” and on October 15, Pamela Anderson’s first cookbook, which the boys persuaded her to write after she helped with them and their friends with index cards full of it. recipes. Of course it’s a vegan cookbook, “but I didn’t write that down, I didn’t want to be put in the vegan corner, I prefer to celebrate all the beautiful vegetables in my garden.” And the mother and sons also run a sustainable skin care line together. A true family business.
The fact that he was working on “The Last Showgirl” put her in the middle of another family business. In one of the most important in Hollywood. Into a royal family, so to speak. Join the Coppola clan. Its director is 37, her name is Gia Coppola, she is the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola and the niece of Sofia Coppola. Gia’s father Gian-Carlo Coppola died in a boating accident when he was 22; his wife was pregnant with Gia at the time. Kate Gersten, Gia’s cousin, wrote the script for “The Last Showgirl” and then the search began for the right cast.
When the young director saw “Pamela, a Love Story,” she knew who was going to be her muse. A woman who knew the highs and sad lows of show business. Someone who knew his back and dark sides and whose life was half-destroyed asked but then, amazingly, he let it go again. Someone asked that she never had her dreams, despite growing relationships (with Tommy Lee and Kid Rock), despite global embarrassment (robbery and publication of sex tapes), despite a job viewed with entertainment in the industry let’s film.
A film that made her feel close to her ideals
And Pamela Anderson clung to the role of Shelley like a straw in an insignificant sea. It was her first “real” movie. Someone who made her close to her ideals: “Fellini, Godard, Herzog, Cassavetes.” Shortly before that, she appeared on the Broadway stage for the first time, acting, singing and dancing as the criminally inclined Roxy in the musical “Chicago”. That is also a personal victory. “I don’t even know what I really did between ‘Baywatch’ and Broadway,” she says. “Everything is like a fog, I did a lot of things for money, some of which I would rather not have done.” She speaks quickly – like the flapping of a dragonfly’s wings.
Shelley is an aging revue dancer in one of the Las Vegas casinos, driven by the belief that she still practices a true art, one born in the vaudeville theaters of Paris. She is a nostalgic woman with a more precarious life who worries about the rising prices of lemons and organic milk. Jamie Lee Curtis is a gambling-addicted cocktail waitress with the ugliest tan since Donald Trump played her best friend. It’s a movie about people who are treated like trash by the Las Vegas entertainment juggernaut.
“I was scared to meet Jamie Lee Curtis,” says Anderson. “She showed up to the rehearsal at the first reading with a fresh orange tan, and as she talked to me her complexion got darker and darker and darker, it was scary.” Of course, the two also became friends in real life. Because unlike his amazing “Baywatch” co-star David Hasselhoff, Anderson didn’t look in the eyes during the filming but only at his chest, Curtis looked into her eyes.
Did the “Baywatch” crew know at the time that Hasselhoff was a big pop star outside of America? «Oh, yes! He gave us his Christmas CDs and posters and signed them. There was no way we didn’t know that.”
While filming “The Last Showgirl,” she cooked a “nutritious vegetable soup” for the crew from her own garden vegetables. “I baked dog biscuits for their dogs and gave them socks; it was very cold in Las Vegas.”
“This is the most valuable part of my life creatively”
“The Last Showgirl” is a charming little independent film, shot in 18 days, and yes, Pamela Anderson is now a real actress, not just the girl who took a series job on the beach because she liked it better anyway. It is fragile, unpretentious, eager to experiment and very experienced.
Maybe not so much in the movie, but in life. Just an attractive woman: “I’m here, I have more energy than ever, this is the most valuable part of my life creatively.” However, she doesn’t want to make any plans;
And then, as the cinema gathers dreaming about being a mother and eating her favorite dish, pierogi, she talks about her sourdough culture. She called him a name. “Her name is Astrid and she is excellent.” Astrid. Like Astrid Lindgren?