Pamela Anderson Talks ‘The Naked Gun’ & ‘Rosebrush Pruning,’ The Werner Herzog Film That Got Away Amid First Golden Globe Nomination

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After scoring her first Golden Globe nomination for her star turn in The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson caught up with Deadline to tease upcoming projects and discuss what this long-awaited moment in her career means to her.

In terms of upcoming films for Anderson at present, the buzziest would have to be Paramount’s The Naked Gun reboot, in which she stars opposite Liam Neeson, who she says she adores. “It was physical comedy, so it’s completely different,” Anderson says. “I’m literally running into walls, so I’m really excited about that one.” Then, there’s Rosebush Pruning, a thriller in which she stars opposite a slew of “incredible young actors” including Riley Keough, Elle Fanning, and Lukas Gage.

That project called for “a very serious, classic style of acting,” Anderson says, “which is really fun to be around because it’s always the stuff I responded to.” At the helm there was Karim Aïnouz, who Anderson raved about as “this wild man behind the camera, like a conductor.” Turning to The Last Showgirl, in which Anderson portrays Shelley, a glamorous showgirl confronting life after the end of her long-running Vegas show, the actress has to say that life is a bit “different” in the aftermath of the project.

While she’s taking meetings with people like Aaron Sorkin, who recently hosted a screening and Q&A in support of the film, she’s still coming to grips with the fact that the rooms she’s now in are the ones in which she belongs.