Pamela Anderson honored for her career at the Zurich Film Festival

(Keystone-SDA) Pamela Anderson, once known for her wild lifestyle and her role in the cult series “Baywatch”, has shown herself to be a serious actress in Zurich. The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) awarded her a Golden Eye Award for her diverse career.

She is said to have given a single autograph outside on Sechseläutenplatz on Friday evening, as was rumored among the media people at the end of the green carpet.

And shortly afterwards she appeared, quietly and quietly, the eagerly awaited Pamela Anderson. She appeared in front of the cameras in a pink robe that was more of a cape. Film people said she spoke so quietly. You can’t even understand much through the headphones.

The 57-year-old Canadian-American actress appeared almost without make-up. Or better yet: made up in such a way that it perfectly emphasized her new vulnerability.

Festival director Christian Junge presented her with a Golden Eye Award at the Congress Center. For her career, which goes from one extreme to the other. He praised her for her “Oscar-worthy performance” in the film “The Last Showgirl” by Gia Coppola, which was shown in a gala premiere at the Zurich Film Festival.

“Pamela Anderson plays so well that you forget the person behind the character,” said Jungs. To which Anderson later replied that she was actually playing herself. Her role as 50-year-old showgirl Shelly, who is at the end of her career and has to save her relationship with her daughter, shows parallels to her own life. «When I read the script, I thought: that’s me. No one else can play this role.”

underestimated throughout his life

Pamela Anderson read her acceptance speech from an A4 sheet of paper. Her words were very reminiscent of the texts she has been sending to her fans in a weekly newsletter for a while. They are always encouraging words from a woman who has been underestimated throughout her life.

She also relied on this narrative in Zurich: “We are all valuable – even in our fifties,” she said. And referring to himself: “You can destroy a building, but not a person.” Her time is far from over. On the contrary, it is just beginning.

Before the subsequent talk with moderator Tanya König, Pamela Anderson handed her reading glasses and the cheat sheet to ZFF director Christian Jungs. And retrieved both before quietly walking out of the room – leaving an impressed audience behind.