In 'The Last Showgirl,' Pamela Anderson delivers an award-worthy performance as an aging Vegas showgirl. Read Entertainment Weekly's review.
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Anderson is the perfect choice for Shelley. She said herself that once she read the script she believed no one else could play this role — and she’s right. Her own history as a sex symbol lends Shelley a richly fraught context, one Anderson gets to interrogate and twist like a glittering kaleidoscope with her performance. With her distinctive babydoll voice, Anderson grants a lost little girl quality to Shelley, while also imbuing her with something more maternal and world-weary.
Through Shelley, Coppola and Gersten make an argument that seems to need to be reiterated time and again — work centered on sexuality and women and desire is as worthy of artistic appraisal and appreciation as anything else. Be it dancing in a “tits and feathers” show, making a movie about showgirls, writing a romance novel, or owning one’s sexuality on television and magazine covers as Anderson once did.
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