For Pamela Anderson , Gia Coppola ‘s drama The Last Showgirl was an opportunity she’d been awaiting for her entire life. “It was such a relief to ..
. be able to do a real film,” said the star, who rose to fame in Playboy and on Baywatch , in a sit-down Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Los Angeles . “I mean, this is the first script I ever read that was a good one.
No one was giving me scripts like this. ..
. So I just poured everything I could into it because I thought, ‘What if this is the only film I ever get to do?'” Written by Kate Gersten, whose way into the world of showgirls was a play about those working at the Las Vegas revue Jubilee! , The Last Showgirl follows Shelley (Anderson), a seasoned Vegas performer who faces an existential crisis when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. An examination, in Coppola’s words, of “how our culture just discards so effortlessly,” the acclaimed indie has has an immeasurable impact on the life of Anderson, who shared: “I feel like I can breathe now.
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I needed to do this for my soul. I wanted to know what I was made of [and] I’m still looking because I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg, and I feel like I’ve just begun.” RELATED: 2024-25 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More Elsewhere in today’s conversation moderated by Deadline’s Antonia Blyth, Coppola discussed how the project reflected her lifelong fascination with Las Vegas and the question of.