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‘Pam & Tommy’ recaps sex tape drama through a #MeToo lens

By ALICIA RANCILIO steps a day. And that was
Associated Press four months.”
NEW YORK (AP) — An James said she and Stan
impactful, if not cringe- “would go up and down”
worthy moment in the as to rating their own
new Hulu series, “ Pam & performances.
Tommy, “ is when Lily James “Sometimes you’d feel
as Pamela Anderson is really in it and on. When I
interviewed by Jay Leno on had the final fittings and
“The Tonight Show” and he the costume and the hair
asks her about her sex tape and the makeup and
with then-husband Tommy everything was going on,
Lee. “What’s it like to have it was pretty crazy to like
that kind of exposure?” suddenly feel like your
He asks. “What’s it like?” whole body changes. The
responds Lily James as acting just sort of slid into
Anderson. “It’s horrible ... place,” James said. “But
It’s devastating.” also it’s great to feel so
Jokes about the sex tape challenged and to sort of
were regular monologue lean into a transformation
fodder for Leno at the time. that feels extreme. That
What perhaps was amusing part was really fulfilling.”
in 1996 is disturbing in 2022. To commemorate the
James says this fresh This image released by Hulu shows Sebastian Stan, right, and Lily James in the series “Pam & experience, Stan says he
perspective is a point of the Tommy,” premiering Feb. 2. Associated Press has wondered if he should
series, based on a Rolling get a tattoo for real.
Stone article written by impulsive marriage. But the sold and also posted online. not to mention hours in “I have thought about it
Amanda Chicago Lewis in big takeaway for viewers is While the series is the makeup chair for both many, many times, but I
2014.,“We’re looking back that the sex tape was not entertaining, sometimes actors. “I don’t have a single feel like the pressure of it
at these stories as kind of leaked to the public by funny, and has a good tattoo on my body, so the now is sort of like, what’s
reckonings and realizing our Anderson or Lee, nor was soundtrack, it can be sad idea of being completely that first tattoo going to
own culpability in the way it sold by them either. The and infuriating too. It’s covered in tattoos was be, you know? And I am
people have been treated tape was discovered in a about how this couple nerve-wracking because I old. (He’s 39.) Am I going
and how as a society we safe that was stolen from had their privacy invaded, felt like I don’t know what to get a massive tattoo on
treat women, particularly, their home by a carpenter leading to major stress that is. I don’t have that my back? Am I at the Ben
not only through the media, (portrayed by Seth Rogen, in their lives and on their confidence to go and Affleck stage yet?” (Affleck
but in all different levels,” an executive producer on marriage. Anderson has do that,” said Stan. “So it has a large tattoo on his
said James. “It’s good to the project) who had been said they never made any was really scary. But then back of a phoenix.)
provoke a conversation, fired from a construction money from the tape and obviously, Tommy looked James says there’s a scene
and it’s important for us all job at their house. When she has never seen it. a certain way. There was in “Pam & Tommy” where
to sort of look inward and Lee refused to pay him or So, how do you begin a weight loss that I had to she gets tattooed by the
look at ourselves and try give him his tools, he snuck to portray a couple with kind of do. I had to sort of famed tattoo artist, Mark
and do better.” back onto the property and larger-than-life personas, eat very specifically, and I Mahoney, who did tattoos
Yes, “Pam & Tommy” stole the safe, hoping there especially when neither would do these long fasting for Anderson and Lee.
recreates the whirlwind was money and valuables Anderson or Lee are periods and then I would “I really want him to give
courtship of a rock musician inside. The tape ended up involved in the project? run and hike and, you me a tattoo,” she said. “But
and TV star and their exchanging various hands, A lot of research, says Stan, know, try and get 20,000 I have no idea of what.”q
Ruhle replaces Williams on MSNBC; ‘Morning Joe’ expanded

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC an- leaving the network in Decem-
nounced Thursday that busi- ber, with a review of the day’s
ness journalist Stephanie Ruhle news and a centerpiece panel
will replace Brian Williams on of three experts.
the nightly newscast “Morning Joe,” with Joe Scar-
“The 11th Hour,” and that borough, Mika Brzezinski and
“Morning Joe” will expand to Willie Geist as hosts and a rotat-
four hours. ing panel of guests, currently
Ruhle, who will continue as a airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. East-
senior business analyst across ern. It will take over the hour
other NBC News programs, had Ruhle is vacating.
been host of the 9 a.m. Eastern Jones said the expansion “will
hour on the news network. give us an opportunity to ex-
In a memo to staff, MSNBC tend the reach of the pro-
President Rashida Jones said gram, which has become so
Ruhle will bring her “business well known for its signature per-
acumen, hard-hitting interview spective and analysis, as well
style and original reporting” to as its newsmaking interviews.”
Stephanie Ruhle attends The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Most Powerful People in the 11 p.m. Eastern hour. She’s The changes are expected to
Media cocktail reception in New York on April 11, 2019. expected to keep the format go into effect in a few months;
Associated Press Williams originated before no start date was given.q