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Pamela Anderson Reflects on Collaborating With Gia Coppola for ‘The Last Showgirl:’ ‘This Might Be My Only Chance’
'The Last Showgirl' star Pamela Anderson, director Gia Coppola received the Pioneer Award at the Sun Valley Film festival for their collaboration.
Presented in partnership with Variety, Sun Valley’s Pioneer Award “recognizes trailblazers in front of and behind the camera.” The pair were eminently qualified for their collaboration on the film, which follows a veteran showgirl named Shelly (played by Anderson) contemplating the future of her career after the revue in which she appears abruptly announces plans to close. Prior to making the film, Anderson had not only just released a memoir, a cookbook and a documentary about her life, but concluded an acclaimed run as Roxie Hart in a Broadway production of the musical “Chicago,” all of which she described as a “warm-up” for the challenges of the role. “[Pamela] was really setting the bar for all of us to just be honest and real and raw and vulnerable, and coming together and really creating a family bond, which was so much of what needed to transcend in the movie.” Anderson’s explanation for her dedication was a bit simpler: “I would tell the girls, “look, you’re going to go on to do another hundred movies.
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