The former “Baywatch” star gives an award-worthy performance that channels her Hollywood history.
But with her raw and beautiful performance inThe Last Showgirl,it just might happen.
The script from Kate Gersten (The Good Place, Schmigadoon!)
Pamela Anderson in ‘The Last Showgirl’.Courtesy of TIFF
Courtesy of TIFF
Coppola and Gersten never frame these women (and Eddie) as people to be pitied.
Anderson is the perfect choice for Shelley.
But she will not allow the world to break her in the same way.
Pamela Anderson at TIFF.Kayla Oaddams/Getty
Shelley refuses to be objectified, choosing instead to own her sexual glamor.
Curtis makes Annette a bawdy figure, always quick with a quip and comic relief until she isn’t.
Its a heart-rending, uncomfortable moment, and Curtis doesnt blink, leaning into it with vulnerable abandon.
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