Mamma Mia’s Lily James has revealed what it was like to star as nineties icon Pamela Anderson in the new series Pam & Tommy, calling the extreme transformation a “liberating” process.
Speaking to Porter magazine, Lily explained that it was like anything she had ever done before. “And then, of course, there was the physical transformation.
Slowly, our incredible team found a balance where I resembled Pamela but also felt like I could act through it. “I’ve never worked so hard.
I read the books [Anderson] has written, I read her poetry, I can parrot along to all her interviews,” she said. Recalling how she would sit in the makeup chair at 3.30am while filming as specialists put on her chest plate, fake tan and wig for four hours, the physical transformation was a gruelling process. “I've never done anything where I look very different from myself before.
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