She looks beautiful, but she’s got a tremendous, vicious kick.” And she’s been amazing doing most of the stuff that we thought we were going to use a stunt double for, including the fight scenes. “She can really act, and she’s brought a great sense of humor to the role, which I don’t think anybody expected. “Barb Wire” director David Hogan admits that he had never seen an episode of “Baywatch” when he signed on to the film, but says he’s been greatly impressed with his star’s abilities.
will turn into this evil, tattooed woman all of a sudden.” “I’m really looking forward to it,” she says. There’s an evil, twisted, dark streak inside me that I finally get to explore with this character.”Īnderson’s “Barb Wire” tattoo may cause some finagling of “Baywatch” story lines this month, when she begins shooting what will probably be her final season as the sweet, mystically inclined seaside vixen C.J.
I feel like I wangled my way into Hollywood, and I’m always in trouble and doing things sideways but eventually getting to where I want to be, and that’s how Barb is. She’s actually closer to me than anything I’ve ever done. I figured at this point in my career, I’m just lucky to be working, and Barb sounded like as much fun as I could have doing a movie. I agreed to do it without even seeing a script. “But when I read the comic book, I knew that nobody could play this character but me. “My manager wanted to turn this down, and told me, ‘You’re not going to play a cartoon character,’ ” Anderson says.
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The character is drawn from a successful series of “Barb Wire” comic books put out over the last two years by Dark Horse, the company that brought “The Mask” to life in both comic books and film. The film is expected to be released next spring.ĭuring a break between scenes, Anderson kicks back in a gray “Phat Farm” T-shirt and shorts and awaits the arrival of the next in the series of decidedly provocative outfits she wears as Barb Wire-a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding bounty hunter, nightclub owner and unmistakably empowered woman who is given to growling “Don’t call me babe” at over-friendly males. She’s just completed two months of shooting around Los Angeles, at locations that ranged from San Pedro junkyards to the cavernous birthplace of the Spruce Goose at the former Hughes Aircraft Co.
Now she’s in the process of actually making that leap from the little screen to the big one, with the eponymous lead role in a modestly budgeted feature that’s been virtually built around her participation.
Near the bustling sets where the futuristic action flick “Barb Wire” is being filmed, a sign on the star’s dressing trailer warns off visitors with a single forbidding word: “Mayhem.” But inside that trailer, Pamela Anderson, the notably curvaceous co-star of TV’s “Baywatch,” turns out to be a friendly and gracious hostess.Īnderson first got noticed as the Tool Time Girl on “Home Improvement” and has since become an internationally recognized icon-in-a-swimsuit thanks to the wild and improbable worldwide success of “Baywatch.” She created some of the biggest press frenzies at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, making appearances to promote “Barb Wire” before she’d even begun work on the film.
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