Pamela Anderson’s new Netflix documentary is part ’90s nostalgia romp, part emotional meditation.
pinup, tabloid and celebrity gossip piñata, animal rights activist. Directed by Ryan White and produced by Anderson’s son, Brandon Lee,frames Anderson’s life and celebrity almost as a kind of performance art project on emotional expressiveness and connection within the trying context of fame. is mostly interested in Anderson’s thoughts and feelings.
From her perspective, posing nude for Playboy was a kind of reclamation of her body. “I’m so sick of all this past, I have to break out of it,” she remembers thinking after she was flown to California for heraudition. “From the first snap of the picture, I felt like I was throwing myself off a bridge,” she recalls.
The documentary presents her life events in the same kind of fairy-tale way that Anderson recounts them. She seamlessly segues into her acting career by being cast in’s CJ Parker, a tomboyish romantic who was partly based on Anderson herself. The show made her a worldwide star; in old footage of the cast doing global promotion for frenzied fans, we’re reminded what a monocultural hit used to mean. Anderson jokes about how no one watchedfor the storylines and about the director covering up bad acting by asking for more squawking seagulls, and her ability to poke fun at herself is an example of why she was so good at being a celebrity.
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