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It seems Pamela Anderson has a new fan. After seeing her performance in Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” writer/director Aaron Sorkin took to Variety to write a column in praise and support of her cinematic reinvention.
“We were distracted,” Sorkin wrote. “For most of her life, Pamela Anderson was being upstaged by ‘Pamela Anderson.’ Then Gia Coppola sent her a screenplay by Kate Gersten, and now Ms. Anderson, having given one of the finest performances of this or any year, has won awards from film festivals around the world and is in the middle of Academy Award conversations.”
Though she didn’t end up going home a winner, Anderson was nominated at last week’s Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by a Female Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She was once again honored this week with a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. She may be facing the likes of Demi Moore (“The Substance”) and Mikey Madison (“Anora”), but for his money, Sorkin thinks Anderson delivers on a level rarely seen, particularly in how she doesn’t always wear makeup in the film.
“She starts out by handling a chaotic and verbose dressing room scene with breathtaking skill and confidence and then, one scene after another, she keeps astonishing us,” he wrote. “Around about the time she has a climactic scene with her daughter (played beautifully by Billie Lourd), you realize you’d been distracted. It’s not her make-up choice that’s fearless, it’s her acting.”
Closing his column, Sorkin highlighted the fact that many may be giving Anderson recognition for her performance in relation to her previous career as a model and on the TV show “Baywatch,” but in truth, her work shows a skill audiences aren’t often exposed to. He said, “Anderson isn’t just giving a great performance relative to expectations, she’s delivering a great performance relative to her peers, of which she now has few.”
Many have agreed with these sentiments, with Anderson now reaping the benefits of this towering showcase and moving from independent films to studio features. Later this year, she’ll be seen alongside Liam Neeson in Paramount’s reboot of “The Naked Gun,” directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer and produced by Seth MacFarlane.
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