Pamela Anderson And Jamie Lee Curtis Talk Being Working Moms

Anderson plays a single mother juggling her career and motherhood in the new film “The Last Showgirl,” and both actresses spoke about their struggles balancing careers and raising children.

“The Last Showgirl” starring Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis is in theaters now.

Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis were interviewed for Paradeand both actresses said “there’s no perfect way” to balance being a mom while working on a career.

Anderson has two children – Brandon, 27, and Dylan, 26 – with her ex-husband, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.

Jamie Lee Curtis also has two children – Annie, 38, and Ruby, 28 – with her husband, Christopher Guest.

In “The Last Showgirl”, her daughter tells Anderson’s character that she was “hurt” by her mother’s career.

“The center of the film is the story of a single mother who chose to do her art and the consequences if her child comes back and says, ‘It hurts me that you chose your art over me,'” said Curtis. . “Most working mothers around the world will see this film and identify with this complex issue.”

“I have two children, 38 and 28 years old, I worked all their lives and I suffered from it,” she continued. “And they suffered for it, and that’s the complicated dance.”

“There’s no perfect way to do it,” Anderson said. “We’re all going to face our adult children and beg for forgiveness… It’s still always heartbreaking. You just feel responsible.”

“There’s no perfect solution,” Curtis acknowledged.

“The Last Showgirl” is a new film from director Gia Coppola about a 57-year-old Las Vegas dancer as she faces the end of her long-running show, “The Razzle Dazzle.”

Curtis plays Anderson’s best friend in the film, and both women are nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for their performances – Curtis for Outstanding Female in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and Anderson for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role in a movie.

Anderson, 57, has embraced aging and often appears on the red carpet without makeup.

After appearing at Paris Fashion Week without makeup in March 2024 and making headlines, the former “Baywatch” actress shared a post on Instagram it summed up his feelings about what is important in life.

“Life humbles you,” she wrote. “As you get older… you stop striving for the big things and start valuing the small things… Time alone, enough sleep, good nutrition, long walks, and quality time with loved ones. Simplicity becomes the ultimate goal. “

Curtis, 66, also shared his feelings about aging and emphasized that growing old takes courage.

“Aging is not for the faint of heart,” she said. “It takes a truly courageous moment to look in the mirror and see the truth.”

The “Halloween” actress also said that social media and filters don’t help, “because people have to accept who they are.”

“No one comes out of this without facing it,” she added. “You hope to do it with some grace at some point. I’ve tried to do it with some grace, but I fail.”

She also pointed out the irony of spending most of her life saying she was older than she was.

“I said I was older than I have been my whole life,” Curtis said. “When I was 25, I said I was almost 30, and people say ‘no, you’re 25’, I say ‘I know but I’m kissing 30′, so I’ve always been me .’ I’ve always gotten older.”

Curtis revealed that “The Last Showgirl” was filmed in just 18 days. The “True Lies” star also said the set was predominantly female.

“The dynamic is that the film was made in 18 days,” Curtis said. “It was a really intense, beautiful kind of confluence of artists and women – mostly women. And, you know, we play best friends, so the immediacy of that was in a weird, at-the-minute way where we touched, it was like all my life experiences came into her All her life experiences came into me, and we said “oh that’s right” and then, you know, we. continued.

“Yes, and we’re in this together,” Anderson added.