'Pamela, a Love Story' is a surprisingly gentle meditation on Pamela Anderson’s extraordinary life, going from her turbulent childhood to the dizzyingly meteoric fame that came after she became a Playboy model and television star via 'Baywatch'
Her career and romantic relationships provide rich fodder for a modern fairy tale, a “Cinderella story on steroids,” as White refers to it. Anderson’s life appears to reach its apex once she falls in love with, marries, and starts a family with musician Tommy Lee, but that image is shattered once a stolen intimate home video of the couple becomes the Internet’s first viral moment.
Lee’s tells TIME his hope for the film is similar: “The real message here is that there is a real person underneath all of those experiences.”White had a wealth of material to draw on for the film, thanks to Anderson’s faithful self-documentation.
“She’s very collaborative from an emotional level and an artistic level, but when it came to the filmmaking and editing conversation, she was very detached from the process, which appealed to me as a storyteller,” White said. “I thought, this is rare.
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