‘Pamela, A Love Story’ Director Ryan White Reveals What Surprised Him Most About Pamela Anderson – Contenders TV: Docs + Unscripted
deadline.comThe words “Pamela Anderson” and “sex tape” might remain synonymous forever. But one of the revelations of the Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story, is that Anderson herself has long since moved past the scandal that erupted in the mid-1990s after a home video leaked of her having sex with her then-husband, Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee. “She’s a very live-in-the-moment, present-tense type of person,” director Ryan White said during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event. “Of course, I was having all of these conversations with her, asking her to reflect on the past — which she was willing to do.
But she doesn’t spend a lot of her life giving a ton of thought to what could have been or what happened to her, what her career could have been without these things.
It’s just not really how the Pamela Anderson brain works.” White, the award-winning director of Good Night Oppy and other documentaries, recorded multiple interviews with Anderson at her boathouse in British Columbia.
He says his biggest surprise was discovering “how funny she was. … I’m someone who prides myself on being quick with a sense of humor.
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