How Pamela Anderson's red swimsuit was recreated for Pam & Tommy - with one subtle change

A source close to Pamela Anderson is opening up about why she will never watch the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, in which Lily James portrays her.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTNT’s “Rich & Shameless” seven-part film series will launch this summer, but the first installment, “The Crime Against Pam & Tommy,” is debuting this Saturday. And the sooner the better for director Jenny Popplewell, who wants the movie to “settle the truth” for Pamela Anderson about her sex tape with ex Tommy Lee, which Popplewell called “revenge porn before we knew it was revenge porn.”“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday.

Lily James feel the weight on her shoulders to do right by Pamela Anderson.

Lily James is opening up about what it felt like to don a swimsuit just like Pamela Anderson in Baywatch for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy.

Lily James' transformation into Pamela Anderson for her role in Hulu's "Pam & Tommy" was quite the undertaking, so much so that the actress admits she didn't recognize herself. In a recent interview on James Corden's "Late Late Show," James revealed just what went on behind the scenes in order to resemble the actress and former Playboy model. She recalled slipping into the iconic red swimsuit Anderson donned for "Baywatch" for the first time.

It’s safe to say Pamela Anderson will never be tuning in to see how her infamous past was portrayed in Hulu’s new series Pam & Tommy.

Pam & Tommy that nearly unrecognizable. The first three episodes of the Hulu original miniseries, which follows the relationship between Pamela Anderson (James) and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in the 1990s and the leak of their private sex tape on Wednesday, February 2, and we honestly can't get enough of Lily James as Pamela Anderson in her Baywatch costume. You know, the iconic bright red one-piece bathing suit. The transformation from – who is known for Cinderella (2014) and Mamma Mia Here We Go Again (2018) – into Pamela Anderson was not easy.

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As one of Hollywood’s most on-again, off-again couples, fans have always wondered: Why did Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee divorce? The reason has to do with more than their infamous sex tape.

Stranger than fiction. Pam & Tommy is a fictionalized version of a real-life scandal that engulfed Pamela Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee in the 1990s, but the truth behind the series is full of unbelievable twists and turns.

For years, fans have wondered what the true story was around Pamela Anderson’s sex tape with Tommy Lee and whether the former couple made any money from the leaked private video.

Getting into character to play Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee took a lot of patience.

Ahead of the release of Pam and Tommy, which airs on Feb. 2 on Hulu, sources close to Pamela Anderson are revealing EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife how the actress feels about the situation. “Pamela is not a fan of this at all and wanted nothing to do with the project,” our insider revealed. “When she learned that this would be covering the burglary, she was absolutely mortified because that entire episode is something that was very hard for her to deal with when it happened. She said that she is not going to watch ‘Pam & Tommy’ and she does not want her kids to watch it either. She didn’t want money from this – she didn’t want it to be made in the first place and she is not going to respond to it.”