Becca Anderson
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136 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Becca Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You seem to be surprised sometimes that you take up such big space in the public's imagination, that a Jamie Lee Curtis would take a role for a chance to work with you. I've heard you talk about how you're surprised that Beyonce, who paid tribute to you, would even know who you are.
What makes you genuinely surprised by the love that people have for you, knowing and understand the level of your fame?
I'm curious about what you mean when you say that you've been playing characters in your personal life all of your life. What do you mean by that?
Were you able to pinpoint, like, what was it about five years old that made you say, I'm going to present based on wherever I am and what I'm doing? Like, I'm not going to know who I am until I'm 50. That is an extraordinary thing at five years old to come to.
Did you ever feel, I'm taking us back to the 90s, and, you know, while reading up on you, I'll be honest, Pamela, I was just sick watching credible news interviewers ask you questions about your anatomy during interviews. And you handled it with such grace. How did you do that? Did you go into those interviews with kind of an armor, knowing that those were the kind of questions that were coming?
Because you seemed to be so quick with it and had such an ability to be able to just deflect from the energy that was being presented to you. And I'm just thinking about you as this person who has so many ideas, but that was not something that was afforded to you to talk about in the past.
The favors that your sons were referring to were those like cameo roles and stuff like that, because you do have such a sense of humor. Like you are in on the joke in many of the roles that you take on. I'm thinking about Borat, which I absolutely love that movie, I have to say. But your ability to make fun of yourself.
Broadway, like theater, is a very exhaustive process, not only just having to perform, but like it's the performance physically too. It's pretty taxing.
The way you describe stepping out on stage in theater, it just sort of reminds me of how you've described also your very first Playboy shoot. Because you've said from the very first snap of that camera, you describe yourself as feeling like you had broken free from something. It seems so counterintuitive to this shy, unsure girl that you also describe yourself as.
Can you say more about that feeling you felt in front of the camera when you first experienced it?
If someone asked me, I would do it. I think that's what she said.
Pamela Anderson, this was such a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you so much.
Oh, thank you. It's lovely to be here.
What was it about this script that made you just know? I mean, it was a beautiful story. It had a wonderful character to play. And I just related on many levels. You know, there's many parallels between us, but I also felt like that was a great jumping off point that I could take this opportunity and really transform into this woman. I was craving to do something like this.
I really needed to sink my teeth into something. And it came at the right time. And I realized if I had any other life, I couldn't have played Shelley as I did. And it all made sense. I had somewhere to put all my life experience in one way or another. It's in there. Yeah. And we're going to talk about those parallels.
I mean, I've met with the Jubilee dancers, and they took so much pride in their art form. I love the nostalgia that Shelley always comes back to, that it's about France, you know, it's Lido culture. It's this, you know, it's important. You know, they were treated like movie stars. They are the icon of Las Vegas, even though they don't really exist anymore.
It was sad to know that there were 85 women on stage and 45 crew members and about 15 people in the audience at the very end, that it was just something that died out and lost to a new culture of, you know, like the dirty circus, she likes to say, that it took more to entertain. And so these art forms die out and it's about the people that have given their lives to these
art forms that are suffering and coming to a crossroads and having to reinvent themselves. And that really resonated with me. I think it's a story about second chances and about the mother-daughter story and trying to find a way to parent as a single mother in an entertainment industry, of course, is another part that I could really relate to and was really interested in.
dealing with in a film, in hindsight, there's so much to this film that I felt was cathartic in some ways.
Well, there was a lot of joy, a lot of pride. And, you know, there's the showgirl walk. You know, the showgirls are not burlesque dancers. They're very far from it. And they told me stories of how they weren't allowed to mingle in the casinos after their performances, that they were to go home and that they were very well protected by people that looked after them.
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