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Lily James and Sebastian Stan spent months working together on the set of Hulu'southward "Pam & Tommy." Withal when they recently reunited for a photo session it was a bit jarring to both actors.

"I barely met Sebastian out of Tommy Lee, and he barely met me out of my Pamela Anderson," James says. "Information technology was really surreal to do even the Variety shoot. Nosotros were like, 'Oh, hey, and so that'due south what you wait like!'"

Lazy loaded image — Alexi Lubomirski for Variety

That'southward a testament to the amount of work James and Stan put into studying and emulating the real-life characteristics of Anderson and Lee — and simply how well the production's pilus, makeup and wardrobe crews perfected their physical transformation. The look is so spot-on that when Hulu released the showtime photos of the "Pam & Tommy" stars in May, it quickly went viral on social media. "I was diddled away," Stan says. "The pilus and makeup team deserve all the accolades that they can get."

Of grade, in that location's a scrap of irony to "Pam & Tommy" breaking the internet. In the series, which premieres Feb. 2, James and Stan play the "Baywatch" star and Mötley Crüe drummer as the couple meet, fall in dear and then make a individual recording that is ultimately stolen — condign the first infamous viral video of a burgeoning online age.

The record was shared and played at parties similar it was contraband. Dubbed VHS copies spread across the world, as information technology was sold and traded on the and so-brand-new World wide web. It later inspired a whole cottage industry of celebrity sex tapes, most of which were purposely leaked — unlike this one.

"I recollect hearing well-nigh it as if it was like a Yeti," says "Pam & Tommy" executive producer D.5. DeVincentis. "Like, you couldn't necessarily assume it was true. It definitely had this sort of aura of a rumor, and something apocryphal. And and so finally somebody put it in front of me and I saw it."

And yet, there remain many misconceptions about what actually happened, and who was really to blame. Over time, the bodily story of the tape's theft and how it victimized both Anderson and Lee — simply at very different levels — has been lost to the memory of late-dark punchlines and sophomoric snickering.

For the stars, producers and directors of "Pam & Tommy," there was a sense that they were on a mission to correct that record — and in particular, perhaps find a petty recompense for Anderson. "Pam & Tommy" is really three stories in 1: a heist thriller retracing how the tape brutal into the hands of a disgruntled construction worker; an unconventional love story about two celebrities whose relationship became more public than they ever could have imagined; and a societal critique on how the media, the justice organisation and the public all failed Pamela Anderson.

"It's an important story, I think, from beingness able to understand what the bear upon of that media tornado really was," says Stan. "For them as a couple but peculiarly for her as a woman. I tin't imagine what having a private home video stolen from you — how that wouldn't bear upon a newlywed couple."

"Pam & Tommy" is adapted from a 2014 Rolling Stone commodity past Amanda Chicago Lewis that finally told the true, although somewhat unbelievable, story of how the record went public. Lewis managed to locate and extensively interview the man who pilfered the record, Rand Gauthier — played in the series by Seth Rogen (who also executive produces) — and he revealed the implausible tale.

Gauthier, whose begetter memorably played Robin Hood in "When Things Were Rotten," was an electrician working inside Lee'due south Malibu estate until the rock star fired him and his team without pay. According to the commodity, when Gauthier returned to selection upwards his tools, Lee waved a shotgun in his confront and refused to let him retrieve those items. That'southward when the handyman, bent on revenge, hatched a preposterous scheme: He'd sneak onto the estate past wearing a fur rug over his back to brand it look like the couple'southward dog, and then steal a safe subconscious in their garage and drive it away in a rented U-Booty.

Somehow, the plan worked. Gauthier took the safe upward into the mountains and found expensive watches, jewelry and guns — plus a mysterious Hi8 videocassette. Later watching the tape, Gauthier, who had dabbled in adult films, figured he'd profit off his findings. He partnered with porn-producer pal Milton "Uncle Miltie" Ingley (played by Nick Offerman in "Pam & Tommy") to notice a buyer.

Only even the sleaziest of adult moving picture distributors weren't interested — the tape was stolen goods, after all. That's when Gauthier and Ingley turned to the newfangled internet, in the age of dial-up modems, and began mailing copies to buyers who institute the duo'due south bearding, no-frills website. For seed coin, they turned to criminal offense boss Louis "Butchie" Peraino (as portrayed past Andrew Dice Clay in the series). Just as people started recording and sharing the tape themselves, Gauthier never saw the riches he was expecting. (And when Peraino didn't get his money dorsum, Gauthier faced a whole new headache.)

"Most people who are acting badly are doing and then from a very simple identify," Rogen says. "I wanted to play Rand as someone who has very trivial going on in his caput. Someone whose ultimately evil acts aren't done out of some amazing and deep thought process, but actually out of a complete lack of thinking and caring nigh how his actions would touch other people."

Limelight president Dylan Sellers optioned Lewis' story and brought information technology to Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Bespeak Grayness shingle, and they immediately signed on — with an eye at first to casting James Franco as Lee. Former UTA agent and HBO exec Sue Naegle too hopped on board and brought along Annapurna, where she had just joined equally head of TV.

"There'due south nothing weirder than truth," says Naegle, who was after elevated to chief content officer at Annapurna. "The actual heist is so strange. Merely we also all looked at information technology and [had] the idea that in that location was a dissimilar fashion to look at this story through a 2022 lens versus how people might take felt in the '90s.

"The opportunity was to tell something that was emotional and funny and true and hard," she says. "At that place was an unfair cultural response in the '90s. It bothered me then. And I recollect the chance to tell the story and to get people to see and empathise how it was nobody's business, it was nobody's right."

At that betoken, the producers agreed "Pam & Tommy" made sense more as a express series (ultimately, eight episodes) to explore all of those themes. Robert Siegel, whose credits include "The Wrestler," "Large Fan" and "The Founder," was hired to take a commencement stab at the script: "I immediately connected with it — '90s truthful crime with all the fun and nostalgia that it brings, plus substance underneath. This story was a way into exploring issues that are still incredibly relevant today. And that was exciting to me."

Joining Siegel as co-showrunner was "The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Criminal offence Story" exec producer DeVincentis, who in 2016 had simply tackled like themes in that 1990s-set up limited series. "I was definitely struck by how much her story sort of rhymed with Marcia Clark's," DeVincentis says. "With Pamela Anderson, what I e'er come back to is that [she and Lee] were doing the exact aforementioned matter. And filmed doing the exact same thing together. And one of them was slut-shamed and virtually drummed out of the business organization and turned into an unserious person. The other was given a new human activity and turned into this sex god. And the only difference between these 2 people [was] their gender. That'south it."

Manager and executive producer Craig Gillespie joined after in the process, bringing feel exploring how the media twisted the public perception of some other maligned 1990s female public effigy — Tonya Harding — in "I, Tonya."

"I had the same preconceived notions I retrieve a lot of audience members will take, which was, well, they were involved somehow, weren't they?" Gillespie says of the sexual activity tape'due south circulation. "I merely expected somewhere along the line, it must have worked out somehow for them. Merely then yous meet, they really got the incorrect terminate of the stick on it. It was a terrible state of affairs that they had to endure."

• • •

As a kid in England, Lily James watched Pamela Anderson on "Baywatch" as lifeguard C.J. Parker, rescuing swimmers while running up and down the sunny beaches of Southern California. She remembers being in awe of the star.

"Sometimes you lot admire qualities in people that you feel you're lacking, or you want to exist more than like," James says. "And I've always felt in that location was this boldness to Pamela, this unashamed kind of authenticity. And even without knowing exactly what went on and the details of the tape, only who she kind of stands for, it feels and then dauntless."

The challenge of capturing Anderson's essence intrigued the "Downton Abbey" alum enough to sign on. She immediately watched more "Baywatch" ("I binged hard," she says) and quickly got to piece of work earning her Ph.D. in all things Anderson, including her mannerisms, behavior and speech patterns.

"She talks really fast, and I would picket her interviews over and over once more and annotate them, larn them and parrot forth with her," James says. "I wanted to get that energy and that impulsiveness and that spirit that she has when she's in front of the camera."

James says her "Pam & Tommy" boot camp was so intense that, despite all the prep work, she nearly quit the serial. "I really wanted to pull out of this a week before," she says, adding her feeling was "'I can't do it. I can't practise it.' It only felt too frightening. But I think that'south a good identify to work from because it keeps you growing and getting better, I promise."

Stan was just as meticulous in plotting his transformation into Lee. When the histrion, who had played Jeff Gillooly in "I, Tonya," was recruited by Gillespie to play the Mötley Crüe rocker, he was puzzled at first: "I don't take a single tattoo on my body," he says. "Then I was similar, 'What exactly is making you call back that I can play this man?' But I was intrigued enough to want to run across why he was calling.

"When yous're playing somebody who's from real life, the story is in that location; you're a journalist at that point," he adds. "Yous're really researching all yous tin can and trying to empathise equally all-time as you lot tin."

Stan began watching Lee interviews on YouTube, reading the rocker'south autobiography, "Tommyland," and consuming the Mötley Crüe tell-all "The Clay: Confessions of the World'due south Well-nigh Notorious Rock Band." Simply the biggest prep: Stan spent months learning to play the drums, Tommy Lee style, complete with the drumstick twirl.

"It'due south not easy to practice," Stan says of Lee's signature move. "My fingers were swollen for a good calendar week and a half. I kept hitting myself in the caput with it."

Gillespie says he's in awe of how prepared James and Stan were when they arrived to start shooting "Pam & Tommy." "They were then committed, and likewise protective of their characters," he says. "They never let up. They were constantly working with it, trying things and finding that nuance. It's that thing of not doing an impersonation only trying to capture the essence of what the [real-life Anderson and Lee] were feeling. That's the tricky office, and I think they both nailed information technology."

But the starting time matter viewers will notice is the physical metamorphosis of James and Stan into Anderson and Lee. James spent a minimum of iii hours in the makeup and hair chair to transform into Anderson; on Monday mornings, she was there by three:thirty a.m. "I sometimes will see a picture of Lily in character, and it takes a second to only double-cheque in my listen that it's not the real Pam," Siegel says.

Stan, meanwhile, had to apply replicas of Lee'southward ink every few days, and as well went on a fast to slim down to the musician'south 1990s skinny physique. Both elements were key, given Lee's habit of appearing shirtless in public. (In Episode 1, Stan's wardrobe consists generally of a G-cord.)

"I looked at the tattoos as sort of beingness a costume in itself," Stan says. Lee's nipple rings were a no-go, still; the ones on Stan's breast in the show are prosthetics.

The PR photo silenced any of the naysayers who had been questioning the unexpected casting of James and Stan, the latter just coming off "The Falcon and the Wintertime Soldier."

Siegel says he didn't understand the concerns, especially regarding James, who played Cinderella toward the end of her "Downton" run. "Pam's smart, shrewd, kind of wholesome; she grew upwardly in small-town Canada," he notes. "She has a real sweet to her, and almost an innocence that we wanted to come across. In the get-go reactions to casting Lily, people on Twitter were like, 'Why didn't they cast Megan Fox?' I was similar, no, they're non getting it."

Adds DeVincentis: "Also, it's so enjoyable as creators and as an audition to feel reinvention. To lookout somebody practice something that is unexpected and that is a stretch, and that is new to them and to usa as the audience. It's a curl of dice. And I remember people are going to be completely stunned at what they run into with Lily James playing this role."

As for Stan, Siegel says, "I thought in that location was a physical resemblance [to Lee]. And he is just a straight-up chameleon. He's just 1 of these guys that disappears into characters."

But we're beating around the bush-league here. Once viewers catch Episode 2 of "Pam & Tommy," they'll all be talking about a specific scene in which Tommy, who had just met Pamela, wonders whether he'south falling in love — and discusses it in a heart-to-heart talk with his penis.

The penis tête-à-tête is inspired by an actual passage in "Tommyland": In the series, Stan, as Lee, is seen conveying on a conversation with the communicative organ (voiced by histrion Jason Mantzoukas).

"Every bit much as I'd like to accept credit for that, I was but adapting a affiliate from [Lee'due south] memoir," Siegel says. "I think it might exist a kickoff [for television]. There was gentle pushback, considering you've got to push back a little when a talking penis is presented to y'all. But Hulu was extremely supportive."

From a technical perspective, Gillespie describes shooting the scene as "just awkward. You've got four puppeteers working with an animatronic penis. And and so, how much is too much, and do you start to lose his emotional torment of what's going on? Hopefully it works."

Meanwhile, Stan says he somewhen approached the scene similar working with whatsoever other acting partner. "By the stop of it, I treated it like it was an intimate buddy conversation that ane might have when they're falling in love."

Early on, "Pam & Tommy" depicts the carefree days of the start of Anderson and Lee's relationship; the couple married in Cancun but four days subsequently meeting. An intimacy coach helped James, Stan and Gillespie handle those sequences.

"Y'all ever have to arroyo those scenes with caution and make sure that you really trust the people involved," James says. "Get-go indicate of phone call is the script. Exercise nosotros feel it'southward necessary? Do we feel that information technology's progressing the story? Is it crucial to the character? Then yous work with the director and how you're going to cake it and the intimacy coach. I felt very supported in all those aspects. It was very collaborative; we really spoke through each choice of what we wanted to bear witness. It'south very choreographed, which is really important too. Certainly, with 'Pam & Tommy,' and those crazy four days, we wanted to revel in that passion and explosion of their human relationship. Just nosotros also didn't want it to feel sensational or unnecessary."

After that, the story turns from wedded bliss to horror every bit the leaked tape threatens Anderson's career. Confronting Anderson'due south wishes, the couple files lawsuits in an effort to stop the tape from spreading — but that backfires, and merely leads to more traumatic moments for Anderson every bit she faces atrocious questions in the degradation. Lee is too victimized, simply the video came at a bespeak when Mötley Crüe was struggling for relevancy in the grunge rock era, and it thrust him back in the limelight.

"In the aftermath of the tape, he didn't have the same response culturally that she did," Naegle notes. "He was a rock star. And and then everyone thought he was a rock star with a rock-star dick. And that is not the earth that she walked out into."

• • •

Equally for the existent Anderson and Lee, it remains to exist seen how they'll react to "Pam & Tommy." In a now-deleted post, Anderson pal Courtney Honey criticized the product for rehashing old wounds and causing "complex trauma" for Anderson all over again. James and the producers reached out to Anderson, but "she'south called not to engage," Siegel says. "So we've respected her desire non to be involved."

Stan had better luck in contacting Lee, but he declines to give details of their correspondence. "He seemed touched and appreciative that I took the time to even reach out and connect," Stan says. Variety too reached out to both; Anderson'southward campsite didn't answer, while Lee'southward squad declined annotate.

Diverseness attempted to find Gauthier likewise, and left letters at phone numbers plant online, but didn't hear back. The "Pam & Tommy" squad besides did not connect with Gauthier. "Having optioned the article, nosotros had what we needed," DeVincentis says.

The "Pam & Tommy" stars and producers hope that Anderson and Lee watch the series through to the end and experience that their story is properly told.

"The show loves Pam," Siegel says. "So I hope Pam loves the show. She's certainly the hero of the bear witness. At every pace of the style, nosotros've tried to do right by her. From the writing to working very closely with Lily, who kind of grew into our custodian of the character."

"Pam & Tommy" besides offers a more than nuanced perspective on the tape itself. In ane scene, Rand's estranged wife, played by Taylor Schilling, points out that most of the tape isn't even about sexual practice, but instead is a chronicle of immature, joyous love. "It's like super wholesome; it's romantic," Schilling's character says. Information technology's quite a dissimilarity to the bear witness'south scenes of "Baywatch" coiffure members laughing along to the tape as Pam walks by, or the anchors of "Difficult Re-create" and "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno making leering comments near information technology.

"It only made me desire to piece of work even harder to try and portray her not only authentically, but to practice her the justice she deserves," James says of Anderson. "It'southward interesting to me that we are relooking at a lot of those stories from the '90s through this more modernistic perspective. It's the only way we tin can grow and learn and movement forward."

Stan says the testify was done with the best intentions and based on inquiry: "All nosotros can do is just sort of wait and see how people perceive it — and certainly how [Anderson] perceives it."

Styling: Stephanie Tricola/Love Artists; Stylist assistant: Fausti; James' Makeup: Gita Bass/The Wall Group; Hair: Ben Skervin/Walter Schupfer; Manicure: Mo Qin/The Wall Group; Stan's Grooming: Kumi Craig/The Wall Group; Await 1 (Stan blazer and collared shirt; James v-neck apparel) Stan: Conform: Hermes; Shirt: Versace at Bergdorf Goodman; James: Apparel: Prada at Bergdorf Goodman; Earrings: Saint Laurent; Rings: Margo Morrison; Look two (Stan hoodie and blazer; James: black wearing apparel with belt) Stan: Blazer: Louis Vuitton; Sweatshirt: Valentino; Tee: James Perse; Jeans: Saint Laurent; Boots: Alexander McQueen at Bergdorf Goodman; James: Wearing apparel, belt, earrings: Alaia; Boots: Saint Laurent;

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Source: https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/pam-and-tommy-sebastian-stan-lily-james-hulu-1235155975/

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