![]() In 2022, we have a vastly different view of how Anderson was treated in 1996, as Pam & Tommy endeavors to point out week after week. In 1996, the extent to which Anderson did stand up for herself in this interview is nothing short of miraculous, with no one around her to condemn the way Leno talked about her on the air or the widespread consumption of her stolen sex tape. He continues to try to laugh it off, at which point she says - not quite as starkly as Lily James, but seriously enough nonetheless: “It’s not funny. I’ve got it here,” Anderson counters - and they let a reel of Leno making jokes about her and Tommy Lee air. “I maybe told one little joke or something,” Leno hedges. “You’re supposed to be my friend and you’re like, you jumped on the bandwagon, everyone’s making fun of us,” Anderson accused Leno on-air in 1996 (again, see HERE via YouTube.) In that other 1996 interview (see the clip HERE via YouTube), Anderson calls Leno out for all the times he’s talked about her and Tommy Lee’s sex tape on the air, noting that husband Tommy Lee has been “taping them” (which tracks with Pam & Tommy showing Sebastian Stan’s Tommy up in arms over at least two different Leno segments), and in fact echoing the line from this weeks episode: “This is devastating to us.” Pam (Lily James) and Jay Leno (Adam Ray) HULU. But their exchange about the sex tape is nearly all taken from a different interview later that year. Both in real life and on Pam & Tommy, Jay Leno asks her about her pregnancy (though in real life, he also nearly gropes her while attaching a mic, a gag the show mercifully skipped). The wardrobe for Lily James’ Pam is modeled after Anderson’s appearance in early 1996 (watch the clip HERE via YouTube), when she’s still pregnant with her eldest son Brandon Thomas Lee and she’s still promoting Barb Wire, as she is in the show. In real life, Pamela Anderson’s many interviews with Jay Leno never seem to have gotten quite this uncomfortable - but the exchange seen in episode 7 is essentially a combination of two appearances Anderson did on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1996. James’ Pam holds for a moment, letting Jay and the audience simmer in their discomfort, before breaking and turning the audience like she’d just cracked a big joke: “What?” she coos, smoothly letting Jay off the hook. To have something so intimate stolen from you, something private from inside your marriage, and have it taken without permission and exposed to the world, it’s devastating. ![]() ![]() In this week’s episode of Pam & Tommy, Pam answers Ray’s Leno like this when he asks what it’s like to have her sex tape out there: “What’s it like? It’s horrible.
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