Breaking Baz: ‘The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson Says She “Danced Between Shame And Beating Myself Up”, And It’s Led To One Of The Year’s Best Performances

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EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson says she has “danced between shame and beating myself up” — and she’s still here.

She has opened so many eyes with her stunning breakthrough performance, at age 57, playing Shelly, a veteran hoofer forced to hang up her heels in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl.

I think it’s one of the best screen performances of the year. The breakthrough has been a long time coming. Even though Anderson cares not to dwell too much on her past, she embraces it for her art and has poured it into the role of Shelly. “I wouldn’t change one thing about my life or I wouldn’t be here,” she declares. “I’ve danced between shame and beating myself up about so many things or wondering what life would’ve been if I didn’t experience the things I did, even as a child, there’s so much,” she says.

But she’s still here. And after writing her memoirs and doing Broadway — she played Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway in 2022 — she describes that experience as “the warm-up for this film.” So it’s been such an experience, she tells me as she’s preparing to travel to London, where she arrives today to promote The Last Showgirl.