Lily James talks Pamela Anderson transformation for Hulu's 'Pam & Tommy': 'I sort of lost myself'

A source close to Pamela Anderson is opening up about why she will never watch the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, in which Lily James portrays her.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTNT’s “Rich & Shameless” seven-part film series will launch this summer, but the first installment, “The Crime Against Pam & Tommy,” is debuting this Saturday. And the sooner the better for director Jenny Popplewell, who wants the movie to “settle the truth” for Pamela Anderson about her sex tape with ex Tommy Lee, which Popplewell called “revenge porn before we knew it was revenge porn.”“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday.

Article updated on 10/02/2022: Following the release of Lily James' latest biographic series Pam & Tommy, the 32-year-old actor has continued to address issues surrounding privacy. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the actor said: 'Women in the public eye at some point experience some sort of difficult situation in that relationship between privacy and your life being in the tabloids. ' In the miniseries James plays Baywatch star Pamela Anderson in a story which explores the American actor's sex tape with her ex husband Tommy Lee.

Lily James feel the weight on her shoulders to do right by Pamela Anderson.

Lily James is opening up about what it felt like to don a swimsuit just like Pamela Anderson in Baywatch for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy.

It’s safe to say Pamela Anderson will never be tuning in to see how her infamous past was portrayed in Hulu’s new series Pam & Tommy.

Pam & Tommy that nearly unrecognizable. The first three episodes of the Hulu original miniseries, which follows the relationship between Pamela Anderson (James) and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in the 1990s and the leak of their private sex tape on Wednesday, February 2, and we honestly can't get enough of Lily James as Pamela Anderson in her Baywatch costume. You know, the iconic bright red one-piece bathing suit. The transformation from – who is known for Cinderella (2014) and Mamma Mia Here We Go Again (2018) – into Pamela Anderson was not easy.

infamous 1995 sex tape, premieres Wednesday on Hulu — and it doesn’t take long before s–t gets weird.Lily James and Sebastian Stan star as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, the bikini-clad “Baywatch” star and bad-boy Mötley Crüe drummer — recently divorced from Heather Locklear — who meet-cute in an LA club and, four days later, get married on the beach in Mexico.They settle into Lee’s ginormous Malibu estate, which is undergoing major renovations. When Lee — a childish, arrogant jerk who struts around in thong underwear — fires carpenter Rand Gauthier (Seth Rogen) and refuses to pay him the thousands he owes him or return his tool box, Gauthier (an ex-porn actor) steals Lee’s safe from his garage.

As one of Hollywood’s most on-again, off-again couples, fans have always wondered: Why did Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee divorce? The reason has to do with more than their infamous sex tape.

For years, fans have wondered what the true story was around Pamela Anderson’s sex tape with Tommy Lee and whether the former couple made any money from the leaked private video.

Mamma Mia’s Lily James has revealed what it was like to star as nineties icon Pamela Anderson in the new series Pam & Tommy, calling the extreme transformation a “liberating” process. Speaking to Porter magazine, Lily explained that it was like anything she had ever done before. “And then, of course, there was the physical transformation.

After catapulting to fame a decade ago in Downton Abbey, fans were left shocked when Lily James revealed her drastic transformation as Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy. But despite the extreme overhaul, this isn’t the first time that the actress has won fans over with her movie makeovers.