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Pamela Anderson has had a "beautiful, messy life". Login or signup to continue reading The 57-year-old actor thinks her life experience helped her in her starring role in The Last Showgirl, the Gia Coppola-directed drama film. "Having a beautiful, messy life is something incredible to draw from, and sometimes I'll look back on my life and think, I could have done this differently, but you need the life experience to be able to look back and say those things," said Anderson, who plays a seasoned showgirl in the movie.
"I do love the craft of acting and I have taken a lot of private lessons and, finally, I felt like this is an opportunity for me to put that into practice," she told Entertainment Weekly. Anderson said she relished playing the film's central character. "I knew I was capable of more than I'd done in the past, and I kind of had given up and went home and thought, oh well, it's too bad.
I screwed up. I didn't work hard enough or people just see me a certain way because I fell into the trappings," she said. "I want to be defined by what I do and not what has been done to me.
" Meanwhile, Anderson previously admitted to being "painfully shy" during her younger years. The actor, who became a sex symbol after playing the part of CJ Parker on Baywatch in the 1990s, said the public's perception of her doesn't really chime with the reality. "I was painfully shy .
.. I wouldn't (even) wear a bathing suit," she told Allure.
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