How Pamela Anderson reinvents herself with The Last Showgirl

After running down on the Californian beaches in the 90s, Pamela Anderson took the open sea and offers a last dance to Gia Coppola in The Last Showgirl.

Some directors have more imagination than others. This is the case with GIA Coppola who saw in Pamela Anderson Another thing than a brainless blonde with perfect plastic. 30 years later, the sulphurous actress ofMalibu alert throw his red swimsuit to put on his glitter outfit of The Last Showgirl. The role of his life and the beginning of a new chapter, without eyeshadow.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter plants her decor in Las Vegas behind the scenes of Razzle Dazzle, a dated show that is now played in an empty room. Too many feathers, too much rhinestones, not enough sexyness. The flamboyant dancers are therefore thanked. Among them? Shelly, the shelf play of this show that has never managed to reconcile her professional life and her parental duties. While his costumes will be at the cellar and his game partners will sail to other paths, Shelly must face the impact of his acts on those around him. In particular her daughter, which she abandoned to go on stage.

A few months later The substance, The question persists: at almost 60 years old, how to reinvent yourself and impose oneself in the face of a new generation, so desirable? “We see all these different generations of women at the same crossroads in the film and what is interesting is to see how they are going to face it and how they get out”Explains Pamela Anderson.

If The Last Showgirl – Turned in 18 days with a budget of less than $ 2 million – marks a real victory for independent cinema, the film becomes above all an unexpected revenge for its main actress, humiliated by the series Pam and Tommy in 2022.

Eight episodes retraced the famous theft of the couple’s porn cassette, without the authorization of the concerned, testifying once again the violence of the industry towards women: “No one called me, which was very strange, and that injured me“She confided as she turned her documentary on Netflix, Pamela Anderson, A Love Story. Family, love story, sexual violence … The Blonde Trash of the 90’s regained control of her life, in a momentum of radical sincerity.

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After an appointment to the Golden Globes and an interview marathon before the Oscars, where she unfortunately could not compete, Pamela Anderson managed to escape from the caricature from which she was held prisoner. Her rebranding muse Playboy to vulnerable actress, advocating the no make-up has forever transformed the rules of red carpets. Actresses “Simple”we think we can see a lot but Pamela Anderson has just redefined the term.

Today, this new version of Pamela Anderson seems obsessed with the theme of parenting since it is expected in Rosebush Pruning, The next film by Karim Aïnouz, in the guise of a mother in a dysfunctional family, composed of Callum Turner, Jamie Bell, Riley Keough and Elle Fanning. A tailor -made cast to tread the boards from the Croisette to the next Cannes Film Festival.

In the meantime, here is the trailer for The Last Showgirlwhich has just arrived at the cinema:

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