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Pamela Anderson’s Former Agent Tossed ‘The Last Showgirl’ Script in the Trash. Fortunately for Writer Kate Gersten, It Made Its Way to the Actress
“He threw it in the trash,” Pamela Anderson says of a former rep who never passed along Kate Gersten's 'The Last Showgirl' script.
Undeterred, the film’s director, Gia Coppola, tracked down Anderson’s son Brandon through mutual friends, and he promised to pass the screenplay along to his mother, who had largely given up on acting and moved to British Columbia. Sitting behind a messy desk in her Los Angeles home, where a cold cup of ramen noodles shares space with her laptop, the mother of two young sons offers a glimpse into her own psyche and the origins for her breakout effort. That kernel of an idea lingered and eventually spawned “Last Showgirl.” As she matured, she filled in the blanks as a dancer herself, performing in the Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” for years before bridging the stage experience with writing as a Juilliard grad student.
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