How ‘The Last Showgirl’s Spotlight Revealed The Real Pamela Anderson: “It’s Taken Me All This Time To Just Be Myself”

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Toward the end of The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson stands alone and exposed on a stage, while, for perhaps the millionth time in her life, a man appraises and assesses her.

Anderson’s character Shelly is auditioning for a Vegas show, trying to hold onto a job she has loved her whole life. But as she blinks under the bright spotlights, the director, played by Jason Schwartzman, tells her, “What you sold was young and sexy.

You aren’t either anymore.” This may be fiction, but, says Anderson, “I could feel it in my body.” The script told her to yell at that director, “I’m 50!” But in that moment, Anderson decided to insert her real age into the line: “I’m 57 and I’m beautiful, you son of a bitch!” As that scene played at the Toronto Film Festival premiere, from the darkness of the theater came calls of, “Yes girl!” and “Love you, Pamela!” Anderson’s business of late has been one of truth.

She left Hollywood and returned home to Canada. She made a documentary, Pamela, a Love Story. She began appearing at events sans makeup. “I went home to find out why I had been making some of these choices, and with destructive relationships,” she says. “I wanted to figure out, who am I?