In December, we learned that Hulu was planning to make a miniseries about Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee called, obvs, Pam and Tommy. The miniseries is supposed to be about a specific period in Tommy and Pam’s life – soon after their wedding, their sex tape (which they made during their honeymoon) was stolen and then widely distributed in the pre-internet days. Seth Rogen plays Rand Gauthier, the man who stole the tape.
As for Pam and Tommy… when the project was announced in December, Hulu had already cast Sebastian Stan and Lily James in the title roles. I actually think Sebastian Stan is great casting for Tommy, perhaps even better casting that Tommy deserves. But Lily James, the English actress who played Cinderella and banged a married man in Rome? THAT Lily James? But as it turns out, with the right wig and the right makeup, anyone can do a good Pam Anderson drag. Hulu released these images of Sebastian and Pam in character and… it’s good. Are they perfect replicas? No. While the miniseries definitely has a good hair and makeup team, you can tell that it’s not really Pam. We’ll especially be able to tell as soon as Lily opens her mouth to say her lines. She cannot do a North American accent to save her damn life.
In addition to Lily, Sebastian and Seth, the series will star Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay and more. I’ll admit it, I’m curious.
Photos courtesy of Hulu, Instagram.
Tommy Lee is everything, I’d hit that NOW, this is like the dollar store version.
Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee is not hot, but real life Sebastian is so much hotter than real life Tommy Lee! IMO, obviously.
I’d hit Seb’s Tommy all day long!! Well, actually I’m a bit older so yeah, I’d hit that for a solid 15 minutes, lol!
They look like they’re at a costume party tbh.
I dunno, didn’t he cop to abusing Pamela?
I’m sure he’ll do fine as Tommy, as he was pretty good in I, Tonya. But I think it’s hard for an actor to replicate that “hard living” look that Tommy had about him back in they day. Even with hair and makeup, you can tell Stan is a bit too healthy and rosy underneath. Which, of course is fine, you don’t want him living like Tommy lived.
I just don’t find men who beat their partners up attractive…
At least in her photo, Lily is such a dead ringer I had to do a triple take. I honestly don’t see Lily behind the hair and makeup, although I’m sure film will show differently.
Seth Rogen’s jorts, lol, and his hair. I like when period projects really commit to showing how heinous the fashion and hairstyles could be (Stranger Things) versus glossing over the visually worst aspects and ending up with only a faint echo of the actual era (The Americans).
In fairness, Lily needs to do a Canadian accent, as Pamela is Canadian. Haha
She didn’t look like that in pap pics from set, so looks like not only the make up people did overtime but also the editing people. And yeah, she can’t act so seeing her in motion will probably be hilariously bad. And Stan is not tall enough to play Tommy Lee, but a better actor than James.
Bollocks .They don’t let people that cant add into Guildhall
She can’t do a north american accent to save her life. She’ll be a mess as usual.
Lmao, so? Orlando Bloom also went there and he’s a bad actor. There enough people who went to amazing schools and are average or below average in their field.
The thing with British drama schools, and Guildhall in particular, is that the acting training is very much geared for stage performing. Performing for camera is VERY different from stage. A lot of drama school actors have said this and that they find the transition difficult – I think James is one of those actors that if you saw on stage she’d be great but on camera she’s a bit hit and miss.
Digi, yes. Film acting is very subtle, because the camera picks up everything and can focus very tightly on the face; stage acting is bigger, without being ott. Fine line, which is why not everyone can do it.
I saw her in Romeo & Juliet with Richard Madden and she was great. He, OTOH, is a much better actor in film & TV, and wasn’t very good on stage. (They also had zero chemistry).
Pamela must kick herself ,if the height of her imfamy was during social media she would have made a killing. She said she was paid peanuts during Baywatch and seeing how she wasnt even a decent actress her star fizzled after the hype.
She must kick herself? The sex tape was stolen property that eventually went online during her pregnancy which led to her settling lawsuits. I feel awful and disgusted this ever happened to them.
That being said, Tommy never should have held that contractor by gunpoint and paid them. Who the hell does that?
I don’t think noki meant the sex tape specifically. Just that Pam was HUGE during the whole 90s. She was everywhere. If she’d had Twitter and Facebook then she could’ve totally monetized it.
Pam seems to have recurring issues with money to this day. Her last ex-husband admitted she used him to pay her debts. Another ex husband was a short lived marriage & she got his gambling winnings in the divorce-more than one marriage that seems to be a band aid for her debt leads me to think even if she got paid well in Baywatch she sounds like she’s got money issues constantly so she’s either overspending or has bad people in her orbit not advising her to invest at all or invest wisely
I recall reading years ago that her home renovations, some because of her changing her mind but more were major structural issues discovered during construction, caused a lot of her financial problems; house was a literal money pit. I think even after it was finally finished, something happened and she had to practically rebuild with a lot of out of pocket because she was underinsured.
She’s a such bad actress
I said this on twitter, but go ahead and give the hair and makeup ppl working on this project their Emmys cause that looks nothing like Lily James. I was only planning on checking this out because of Sebastian, but now I’m curious to see if Lily can pull this off.
It all depends on if James can pull of Pamela’s voice/speech patterns – James can’t do an American accent. Pamela has a very particular way of speaking.
Her family are half American (her Grandma,father ,uncle all now dead within a few years ).And she held the accent well in Baby Driver and as young Meryl in Mama Mia
Pam is from Canada.
Ah yes, if your dead relatives had the accent then you can do it as well.
I agree with Digital Unicorn that Lily was trained as a stage actress and it comes across on screen. She’s a bit hammy and she doesn’t play well opposite other actors, but draws attention to herself even when the scene calls for more interaction and chemistry. Some of my favorite actors are those who know how to share the screen when playing opposite others. It takes discipline, it’s both a gift and a learned skill.
I have no interest in watching this because neither character is appealing IMO and the whole saga is just a shrug for me.
I’ve only seen Sebastian Stan in one thing. I think he’s quite good. Lily is a perfectly decent actress and she has screen presence, but she’s limited in range and I don’t see her ever becoming a really good dramatic actress.
Kudos to the makeup and styling department, though. She really does look like Anderson there and she looks nothing like her IRL.
Hmmm, Humbugged. I didn’t think she sounded American in Mama Mia. I thought her English accent came through quite strongly, to the point that I thought they had ret-conned it and made Donna British. Didn’t they show her graduating from a British university in the opening scene?
Americans also go to UK unis
Saw her in Little Woods/Crossing The Line and she was fine playing Tessa Thompson’s sister .Which was funny as Lily is actually Lily Thomson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKCxFp262uY
It doesnt really matter if she can’t do an American accent as Pam is Canadian and has a Canadian accent. So it only matters if she can do a Canadian one.
If someone can’t pull-off an American accent, they won’t be able to do a Canadian one either.
Pamela’s voice, rather than her accent, might be what she has to pull off. Even with the right North American-type accent, Pamela’s way of speaking voice-wise is sort of unique to her. Accent-wise, I don’t think I could place her geographically because I don’t think she sounds regionally-specific, but I recognize her actual voice and patterns when I hear it.
I’m sorry, but dressed like that Lily James looks more like drag Queen Gigi Goode than Pam Anderson.
Personally, I’ve always thought Pam Anderson’s whole look in the past was drag queenie. She’s stopped doing that and now wears more subtle makeup and is completely unrecognizable.
I remember Pam and Tommy together they were so hot together.
And Pamela was the hottest thing around, I swear a lot of girls around the world copied her tattoos.
For my money, the *only* Pamela Anderson drag that matters is Bimini Bon Boulash.
hell yes!!!! What an awesome thought.
I don’t feel great about this one.
During that time Pam was being abused, the tape was stolen against her will, and this just doesn’t feel good to her.
Just my 2c
I nearly spit out my coffee when I got to Seth Rogen’s picture!
I can’t believe a movie is being made about this.
A series! I think there are eight episodes. It doesn’t seem to be like there’s enough material to stretch it that far. But apparently it’s meant to be a comedy, so maybe it will be funny. Or if it’s bad, unintentionally funny.
Omg a series?!
@minx, right. It’s a series about their MOVIE story? Will it be followed up by Kim K’s & Ray J’s and anyone else’s?
Tommy Lee & Pam always looked dirty to me (not in a sexual sense either). They walk out of the ocean or pool and still look like they haven’t bathed/washed for weeks. Most of us might look a big scraggly coming out of those situations. It’s not even the eye makeup running either.jmo
Whether it’s photoshopping or not, Lily does look like a clean version of Pam.
She looks sort of like Nancy Sinatra there. It’s a nice photo. Why do I suspect it might be the best thing about this show?
I did not recognize Seth Rogan. That’s a compliment.
Haha-had to double check too. He looked good in Longshot, maybe.
My brain can’t comprehend that is Lily. The likeness to Pamela is insane!
Since this was apparently a genuine theft of a private sex tape, in my view anyone who viewed it was committing a sexual offence. Even if the law hadn’t caught up with technology when it occurred (certainly in my jurisdiction it would be an offence today), if it is a comedy, I don’t find sexual exploitation of people who haven’t consented to be funny. A drama about the subject and how Pamela and Tommy felt about it, possibly.
I think at first that was the case for sure but I remember an interview where pam said others were making money off the tape her and Tommy might as well and they legally sold it at that point to get the profits themselves as opposed to others
I feel sorry for Sebastian’s girlfriend. I’m not saying James might make a move, but he did the Rome thing and before that he was with Armie Hammer. Who now we know it’s a serial cheater and rapist , but then again, lily is not that innocent either. She would know better
I don’t think that’s fair. Yeah, she f’cked up but hopefully she learned from that, but she wasn’t the married one. And she’s with someone, maybe that changes things for her.
And she can kiss her career goodbye if she’s caught again with another taken co-star, she knows that.
She is now dating Mikey Shoes from QOTSA and has been for a while .She spent £3m on a house but is livin with him in LA while filming this
https://www.hawtcelebs.com/lily-james-and-michael-shuman-out-shopping-for-groceries-in-los-angeles-04-04-2021/
I don’t give a hoot about Lily James, Tommy Lee, or Pamela Anderson. But I will watch for Sebastian Stan. I am not super into superhero movies, but he turned the side character of Bucky/the Winter Soldier into such a compelling and tortured antihero. He was terrifying as the Winter Soldier and amazing as Bucky with PTSD waking up to a personal hell after years of being a mind controlled assassin. And I loved him in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Not only is he ridiculously good looking, but he is also incredibly talented.
Pam is very small-boned. To me, that’s an important thing you can’t change and Lili isn’t.
Pam and Tommy? Really? There’s desire to resurrect this volatility?
Ewww Tommy Lee is so disgusting. This ruins Sebastian Stan for me