Jamie Lee Curtis on Working With Pamela Anderson

Spoiler Alert: This story incorporates particulars about particular scenes in “The Final Showgirl.”

Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t hesitate when director Gia Coppola requested her to be in her drama, “The Final Showgirl.”

“The reality is I needed to be on this as a result of it was known as ‘The Final Showgirl’ and Pamela Anderson was going to play the final showgirl,” Curtis stated throughout a Brian Tyree Henry-moderated post-screening Q&A of the Roadside Points of interest movie at CAA in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.

The film tells the story of Shelly, a 57-year-old Vegas showgirl who has been in the identical Las Vegas present for many years. The film unfolds as Shelly and the remainder of the dancers are instructed that the brand new house owners of the on line casino are closing the present. Curtis performs Annette, a former showgirl with a ingesting and playing drawback struggling to outlive as a on line casino cocktail waitress.

Requested how she ready for the half, Curtis cracked, “I acquired a sprig tan. I had by no means gotten a sprig tan. I’ve by no means completed it. I’ve checked the spray tan field — excuse the pun, [but] they put it in every single place.”

In one of many film’s most heart-wrenching scenes, Annette is totally ignored as she dances in the course of the on line casino to Bonnie Tyler’s “Whole Eclipse of the Coronary heart.” The sequence wasn’t within the script however Coppola instructed Curtis simply earlier than their first desk learn, “Annette goes to bounce.” Throughout their ultimate day taking pictures on the Rio Resort & On line casino, Curtis recalled, “Gia walks up and says, ‘Annette’s dancing in 5 minutes.’”

Curtis did the dance in a single take.

Curtis teared up speaking in regards to the real-life girls working in Vegas. “There’s a Nancy Griffith music, ‘It’s a Onerous Life Wherever You Go,’” she stated. “It’s a tough life for these girls. This film actually strikes me. It’s exhausting. It’s a tough place — Vegas. It’s all about reinvention. That’s actually the nugget of it. It’s this fixed reinvention. Annette is simply the cautionary story of what occurs to girls.”

Anderson stated she associated to Shelly in some ways. “I understood her and her love of nostalgia and the significance of glamour and efficiency and fantasy, making folks completely satisfied and making herself completely satisfied.”

“The Final Showgirl” picked up two Golden Globes nominations on Monday morning, together with greatest efficiency by a feminine actor in a movement picture-drama for Anderson and greatest unique music for a movement image for “Lovely That Approach” with music and lyrics by Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus and Lykke Zachrisson.