But the cast of "Pam & Tommy" - an eight part
series that looks into the sex tape scandal of TV star Anderson
and heavy metal rocker Lee - say the show is more than just a
romp through 1990s nostalgia.
“It's really like an ode to (Anderson's) bravery and her courage
in the face of so much misogyny," said Taylor Schilling, who
plays the estranged wife of the man who stole a sex tape of one
of Hollywood's most wild and glamorous couples.
The story, which premiers on Feb. 2 on Hulu in the United States
and Disney+ in Britain, is an indictment of the audience that
lapped up the scandal, Schilling said.
"We collectively weaponized our judgment against her," said
Schilling. "It implicates us as a collective."
Anderson is played by Lily James, best known for appearing in
rather frillier period costume as an English aristocrat's
daughter in Downton Abbey. Anderson and Lee, who were married
from 1995-1998, had no involvement in the series, so the actor
had to find the character's essence on her own.
"I would love to have worked with (Anderson) on this, but in the
end, I just had to entirely work my hardest to lean into all the
research and to explore as much as I could to try and play her
as authentically as possible," James said.
Lee, drummer for the notoriously hard partying band Motley Crue,
is conjured up by Sebastian Stan, with the comic book charisma
he showed off as the Winter Soldier in the Marvel superhero
franchise.
The series captures the couple when "they were both at their
very peak," Stan said. Then came "the invasion of privacy that
ensued and the fallout and how they had to process it and how
they dealt with it and particularly how she dealt with it".
Critics seem to be lapping it up. The two lead actors are "both
on top form. They are magnetically attracted to each other, and
play lovestruck honeymooners like two feral animals who
communicate in grunts," wrote Britain's Guardian newspaper.
"It’s so, so good."
(Reporting by Alicia Powell)
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