Who Plays Hugh Hefner In Pam & Tommy
Pam and Tommy includes Playboy magazine's editor-in-chief and founder, Hugh Hefner, but who plays him in the limited series? Following the traumatic case of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape in 1996, Hulu's Pam and Tommy is based on Amanda Chicago Lewis' 2014 Rolling Stone article "Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Sex Tape." In addition to her role as CJ Parker in Baywatch, Pamela Anderson built a successful modeling career with Playboy magazine beginning in 1989. She has been on Playboy's cover a record 13 times, with her last cover appearance being as recent as January 2011. It's only natural, then, that Pam and Tommy would include Hefner.
Hugh Hefner is remembered as an iconic but controversial figure. The rivalry between Hefner and Penthouse's Bob Guccione partly stems from the fact that Penthouse could never break into the American consciousness as Playboy did. In a way, Hefner built a monopoly on the soft-porn industry before the internet made porn more accessible and varied. With that said, people consider Hefner strongly responsible for furthering the exploitation of women in mainstream media. Whatever layers there are to his complex reputation, Pam and Tommy gives Hefner brief on-screen moments where he's portrayed as classy and welcoming.
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The actor portraying Hugh Hefner in Pam and Tommy is Mike Seely. Mainly having been in shorts and indie films, Seely's more notable works include 2019's Dark Waters with Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins, an episode of Nashville, and 2020's The Wanderer. While Lily James must transform dramatically into Pamela Anderson by sitting through four hours of makeup, Seely already
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