Pam & Tommy: Who Plays Jay Leno & Was The Interview Real?
Hulu’s Pam & Tommy episode 1 starts with a rehash of an uncomfortable 1996 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno interview for Lily James’s Pamela Anderson, and some might wonder if the interview really happened, as well as who plays Jay Leno. The interview should have been about Anderson’s upcoming film Barb Wire, but instead, cringeworthily focuses on her and husband Tommy Lee’s stolen sex tape, with Anderson being visibly uncomfortable. The scene serves as a way to foreshadow the point of view Pam & Tommy will have, focused more on the emotional toll on the victims, especially Pamela Anderson, and the cruel way it was talked about in the media.
Pam & Tommy is based on the Rolling Stone article “Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Sex Tape,” published in 2014. On top of the story detailing the theft and the subsequent spread of the sex tape via bootleg VHS sales, the Hulu drama also purports to tell the whirlwind love story between Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan), kickstarted by a first meeting that rapidly turned into marriage in just 96 hours. The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy were released on February 2, made available to stream simultaneously on Hulu in the US and internationally on either Disney+ or Star+.
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Pam & Tommy episode 1’s opening scene shows an initially playful banter between James’s Pamela Anderson and The Tonight Show host. It quickly turns into something unsavory and uncomfortable when he asks her about the tape, especially with the camera lingering on Anderson’s visible distress. Relentlessly making jokes that were allowed (yet were no less hurtful) in the 1990s but
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