The glitter and lights of Las Vegas are shining brightly. Pamela Anderson in The Last Show.Image: zff.com
In the past, she ran on the beach, today she takes care of her garden and cooks delicious meals. A meeting with the former – and legendary – actorBay WatchPamela Anderson.
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During his visit to Switzerland for the premiere of the film The Last Show at the Zurich Film Festival, Pamela Anderson often talked about “pop culture”. “I would love to be part of pop culture,” says the 57-year-old actress as she sits Saturday afternoon in a white dress in a Zurich movie theater (in a not-at-all-glamorous way).
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 film. The Last Show.
According to pop culture, it refers to an era that goes back thirty years: this term referred to everything that was on television or found in a magazine. There was FriendsMTV, Viva. It was the series Bay Watch et Beverly Hills 90210which showed very handsome young Americans doing jobs that still looked like hobbies. In the 90s, there was a pop culture of post-modern carefreeness, the world that still does not know September 11, and in the center of life, Pamela Anderson.
Only her eyebrows have changed: Pamela Anderson, the icon of the 90s i Bay Watch.Image: stock and people imago
Turning point without makeup
For 110 episodesBay Watchshe played lifeguard CJ Parker. She was a symbol of a culture of hedonistic pleasure. Everyone liked her because she was sexy and had an eccentric life while still being very nice to her friends. His voice is the same today as it was, soft as a ray of sunshine.
His Scandinavian heritage was never more visible than it is today: his grandfather left Finland for Canada. “He taught me everything about mythology and stories,” says the actor. She doesn’t seem to be herself like the CJ since then, she could now play a wry, young-at-heart adult character in an Astrid Lindgren film. His face shows a lot of experience and an immense serenity that encompasses everything. Because one day, Pamela Anderson stopped wearing makeup.
With his dog, on Vancouver Island.Image: netflix
“How is it a problem not to wear makeup?” she asks.
“I’m following my own experience in an age where young women see a lot of faces with filters on Instagram and then they’re disappointed when they look in the mirror.”
Pamela Anderson.
This fits with their more natural lifestyle. As well as being an actress, she now takes care of her farm on Vancouver Island. She seems to have many gardens on her hands, is a dedicated cook, and realizes that her sons Brandon and Dylan (from her relationship with Tommy Lee) do everything for her. Which is a little surprising:
“I never took a nanny, they were always with me everywhere, maybe it was a mistake, I’m afraid they saw a lot of things”
Friday evening, during the award ceremony at the ZFF.Image: keystone
Last year, Netflix released the documentary Pamela, a love storyproduced by Brandon. And on October 15, Pamela Anderson will release her first cookbook, which her sons convinced her to write after she helped them and their friends with all her recipes. This is of course a vegan cookbook, “but I didn’t write it, I didn’t want to be put in the vegan corner, I prefer to celebrate all the beautiful vegetables in my garden”. And Pamela and her sons also run sustainable skin care together. A true family business.
Within the Coppola clan
This is good, with the work onThe Last Showshe was at the heart of another family business, one of the most important in Hollywood. In a royal family, so to speak, in the Coppola clan. Its director is 37 years old, 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 at the age of 22, his wife was pregnant with Gia at the time. Kate Gersten, Gia’s cousin, wrote the script for The Last Showthen the search for a solution began.
Here with Gia Coppola, who looks just like her aunt Sofia.Image: keystone
When the young director saw Pamela, a love storyshe knew who was going to be her muse. A woman who was familiar with show business. A woman who knew her supports and shadows. A woman who did not let her dreams slip despite her growing relationships (with Tommy Lee and Kid Rock), despite global shame (stealing and publication of sex tapes), despite a job that was considered a certain joke in the world of cinema. . Pamela Anderson.
And Pamela Anderson continued the role of Shelley like a lifetime in an insignificant sea. It was his first “real” movie. One where she felt 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 the role of Roxy, a woman with criminal tendencies, in the musical Chicago. There is also a personal triumph. “I have no idea what I did either Bay Watch et Broadway“, she said.
“Everything is very unclear, I did a lot of things for money, some things I would rather not do”
Pamela Anderson.
She speaks quickly – like the flapping of a dragonfly’s wings.
Tommy Lee remains her true love to this day, although she has had many other husbands.Image: image
The story of The Last Show
Shelley is an aging revue dancer in one of the casinos in Las Vegas, she is still motivated by the belief that she is still practicing a true art, an art born in the vaudevilles of Paris. She is a nostalgic person who lives in uncertainty, she is worried about the rising prices of lemons and organic milk. Jamie Lee Curtis, a cocktail waitress addicted to gambling and the ugliest tan since Donald Trump, plays her best friend. It’s a movie about people who are treated like trash by the Las Vegas entertainment behemoth.
“I was scared to death of meeting Jamie Lee Curtis,” says Anderson.
“She came to the first rehearsal with a fresh orange tan, and when she spoke to me her skin tone got darker and darker, it was scary.”
Pamela Anderson on Jamie Lee Curtis.
Of course, the two also became friends in real life. Because unlike his great colleagueBay WatchDavid Hasselhoff, who never looked into her eyes during filming, except for the forehead, Curtis looked into her eyes.
The team ofBay Watch did she know at the time that Hasselhoff was a huge star outside the United States? “Oh yes! He gave us and signed his CDs and posters at Christmas. We had no chance of not knowing.”
During the filming of the The Last Showshe prepared for the team a “nutritious vegetable soup” with vegetables from her garden, “I made cookies for their dogs and gave them socks, it was very cold in Las Vegas.”
Pamela has always loved dogs.Image: netflix
The Last Show It’s a fun little independent film, shot in 18 days, and yes, Pamela Anderson is a real actress now, not just the one who took a job on a beach show because she’d rather be on the beach anyway. She is vulnerable, unpretentious, ready to accept life as much as possible and has a huge amount of experience.
Maybe not so much in the film yet, but in life. “I’m here, I have more energy than ever, it’s the most valuable part of my life creatively.” However, she does not want to make any plans, she prefers to follow her lucky star: “it is the best place I can be: I live in the middle of the mystery of the next thing that could happen.”
(Translated from the German by Anne Castella)
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