Pamela Anderson reacts to ‘The Last Showgirl’…
No thanks to the Academy.
Pamela Anderson was among the many snubs when the 2025 Oscar nominees have been introduced on Thursday. Anderson, 57, who received a “best actress” Golden Globe nomination for her efficiency in “The Last Showgirl,” was shut out of that race for the Academy Awards.
“Oh my gosh, it’s not something I ever expected,” the previous “Baywatch” star instructed Elle.com hours after the 2025 nominees have been introduced.
She added, “Doing the work is the win. That’s what I like to do, and I think we can lose sight of that sometimes in this whole crazy awards season, but it’s nice to be recognized, and it’s all a bonus.”
Pamela Anderson on stage during a screening of “The Last Showgirl” on Nov. 26, 2024. Getty Images
Pamela Anderson in “The Last Showgirl.” AP
Pamela Anderson in “The Last Showgirl.” ©Roadside Attractions/Courtesy Everett Collection
The 2025 “best actress” race is between Demi Moore (“The Substance”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”) Karla Sofia Gascon (“Emilia Perez”) and Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”).
Anderson has been going to awards season occasions makeup-free lately, and introduced her son, Brandon Thomas Lee, 28, as her date to the Golden Globes. She shares him and her different son, Dylan Jagger Lee, 27, together with her ex husband, Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee, 62,
“I couldn’t imagine [it] anyway,” Anderson stated about getting an Oscar nomination. She famous that she was acknowledged by the Screen Actors Guild.
Pamela Anderson in “The Last Showgirl.” AP
“I’m happy for the SAG nomination, that’s [voted on by] your peers. That’s really cool. This has been a long road promoting this film.”
The film stars Anderson as Shelly, a Las Vegas showgirl who has been spending 30 years doing her act when it shuts down, leaving her unsure about her future. Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, and Brenda Song co-star, whereas Gia Coppola (Francis Ford’s granddaughter) directed it.
“I’ve never read a script that I responded to like that before — no one was sending me anything like this,” Anderson instructed EW in November.
Pamela Anderson on the 2025 Golden Globes. WireImage
Pamela Anderson in a scene from “The Last Showgirl.” AP
She added, “I read it and I thought, I have to do this. It’s life or death. It’s really important. I knew I was capable of more than I’d done in the past, and I kind of had given up and went home and thought, oh well, it’s too bad.”
The former Playboy model stated that earlier in her profession, “I didn’t work hard enough or people just see me a certain way because I fell into the trappings.”
Referring to occasions from her previous reminiscent of her notorious intercourse tape with Lee, she stated, “I want to be defined by what I do and not what has been done to me.”
The 2025 Oscars air Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.
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