Lily James was 'a wreck' after LIVING in character as Pamela Anderson

2022-09-25

‘I was shot to s**t’: Lily James admits she was ‘a wreck’ after LIVING in character as Pamela Anderson and speaking to her mother in Baywatch star’s voice while filming Pam & Tommy

Lily James says she was ‘shot to s**t’ and ‘a real wreck’ after she lived in character as Pamela Anderson while filming biographical drama Pam & Tommy
The actress, 33, played the Baywatch star in the show which chronicled the marriage between Pamela and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, played by Sebastian Stan
Screen star Lily says she spoke to her own mother in Pamela’s voice and never properly left character the entire time she was filming, insisting the difference between her real-life self and Pamela is too stark

Lily James says she was ‘shot to s**t’ and ‘a real wreck’ after she lived in character as Pamela Anderson while filming biographical drama Pam & Tommy.

The actress, 33, played the Baywatch star in the show which chronicled the marriage between Pamela and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, played by Sebastian Stan.

Screen star Lily says she spoke to her own mother in Pamela’s voice and never properly left character the entire time she was filming, insisting the difference between her real-life self and Pamela is too stark.

Tough role: Lily James, 33, says she was ‘shot to s**t’ and ‘a real wreck’ after she lived in character as Pamela Anderson while filming biographical drama Pam & Tommy

According to the Mirror, Lily said: ‘It was such a screwed-up process. You just have to be patient with yourself. The hours are so long and you feel really burnt out. Your nervous system is just like, shot to s**t. I felt like a real wreck at the end of it.

‘The difference from me to her was too extreme to go back and forth. So, I had to stay in this middle no man’s land of like Lily/Pamela most of the time. I would totally slip into her voice.

‘Even when I went out for dinner and was ordering with the waitress or talking to my mom on the phone, I would be American. I think I’ve lost lots of jobs because I keep speaking like Pamela in any audition.’

Telling the tale: The actress, 33, played the Baywatch star in the show which chronicled the marriage between Pamela and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee (Lily pictured as Pamela in show)

Lily was nominated in the Lead Actress category at the 2022 Emmy Awards but was beaten by Amanda Seyfried who won the prize for her role as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout.

Pam & Tommy chronicles the sex tape scandal which rocked Pamela and her then-husband Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (played by Sebastian Stan) during their three year marriage.

The Downton Abbey star previously told PORTER that it felt ‘liberating’ playing Pamela, but explained: ‘I’ve never worked so hard. I read the books [Anderson] has written, I read her poetry, I can parrot along to all her interviews.

Lily explained that the makeup and costume took four hours every day to perfect, and came complete with a prosthetic body suit.

All stars: Lily starred opposite Sebastian Stan, who played Tommy Lee (pair pictured in series)

She said: ‘Of course, there was the physical transformation. Slowly, our incredible team found a balance where I resembled Pamela but also felt like I could act through it.

‘I’ve never done anything where I look very different from myself before. And I’d really like to continue in this vein, because I felt there was something very freeing and liberating in it. There was a bravery that came from that. A courage that came from… disappearing.’

Pamela, 54, and Tommy, 59, tied the knot on a beach in Mexico in 1995 after dating for just four days. At the time, Pamela’s mother hadn’t even met Tommy.

The pair would go on to welcome sons Brandon, 25, and Dylan, 24, but they divorced in 1998.

In 2015, Pam told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that she never profited from the sex tape, nor even watched it. She said: ‘I’ve never seen it. I made not one dollar. It was stolen property…

Seeing double: Lily (L) looked the spitting image of Pamela (R) as she slipped into a busty red swimsuit for the series

‘We made a deal to stop all the shenanigans. I was seven months pregnant with Dylan and thinking it was affecting the pregnancy with the stress and said, “I’m not going to court anymore. I’m not being deposed anymore by these horny, weird lawyer men. I don’t want to talk about my vagina anymore or my public sex — anything.”‘

The sex tape was stolen by Rand Gauthier, who is played by Seth Rogen in the show, after Tommy reportedly refused to pay for work that he had performed on their house.

When Gauthier confronted the musician about not being paid the $20,000 he was owed, Tommy pulled out a gun to scare him away.

Gauthier took his revenge by stealing the giant safe that had been kept in the couple’s garage, which mainly housed the drummer’s guns and Pamela’s jewelry, in addition to the sex tape.

Earlier this year, Pam claimed that the video wasn’t actually a sex tape, but was merely a compilation of footage of them naked on vacation, which just happened to include sex acts.

Uncanny: The new Disney+ series stars Lily and Sebastian taking on the roles of Pamela and Tommy (Pamela and Tommy pictured in 2005)

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