A role that could well earn him an Oscar nomination. In this feature film The Last Show Girl by Gia Coppola, the actress popularized with her role in the series Baywatch plays a fifty-year-old dancer from an erotic show in Las Vegas threatened with unemployment because of her age.
Forced to change her life, Shelley finds herself searching for a new job while struggling with her strained relationship with her family, and her tangled feelings for a director.
The Last Show Girl addresses questions of the American dream, femininity and identity and Pamela Anderson’s performance offers a mise en abyme of her own Hollywood history. It’s a way of also capturing the multi-layered beauty of women, particularly those who are underestimated because of their beauty or even their art. A challenge and a form of achievement for the ex-playmate who had never been offered a nuanced and artistic role like this.
A nice way for the 57-year-old actress to shed her labels and prove that behind her appearance, she is a woman in her own right, in all her richness and complexity.
Pamela Anderson will receive a Golden Eye Award for her entire career tomorrow at the Zurich Film Festival.
LE MORNING
