File it in “Unexpected Casting News”: Lily James (Baby driver, Cinderella) i Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Destroyer) have been hired to play Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in a new limited series for Hulu.
For anyone who would have been a little too young to experience his fame as it was happening, Anderson (playmate and Playboy actress) and Lee (the drummer of rock band Mötley Crüe) took part in a whirlwind romance of great profile that drew the attention of the tabloids for years. During their honeymoon, the two filmed a sex tape that was eventually stolen and leaked to the public. In the next limited series, Seth Rogen (This is the end, Steve Jobs) is on board to play the man who stole and distributed the tape.
The deadline reports that James and Stan will play Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, respectively, while Seth Rogen will play the sex tape robbery in a program that works with the title of Pam and Tommy. The eight-episode series will be produced by Rogen and his creative partner Evan Goldberg, as well as for Dylan Sellers and of Annapurna Megan Ellison i Sue Naegle.
Jo, Tonya director Craig Gillespie is on board to direct this show, reuniting him with Sebastian Stan, who played Tonya Harding’s husband, Jeff in that film. Rob Siegel, writing credits include The fighter, They are great, i The founder, among others, will write the script.
Years before the sex tapes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian launched these women into the cultural spotlight, the Pam Anderson / Tommy Lee sex tape was a huge scandal that caught the nation’s attention. (I can’t imagine why the famous Disney, a family business, didn’t make a big outrageous announcement about this project during the company’s big investor call last week). , but the series will also focus on the early stages of the couple’s romance, when they married after only 96 hours of first meeting.
As for the casting, Stan has a rogue energy that apparently makes him a good fit for the tough Lee Lee, but James makes a much bigger leap here. This is a hard pivot that moves away from the types of characters he has played at Disney Cinderella, From Netflix Rebecca, o The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and it should be fascinating to see if this is a one-time experiment or the beginning of a new era in his career in which he expands the types of parts he plays.
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