Why Pamela Anderson Needed to Go Make-up-Free in ‘The Final Showgirl’ (Unique)

Pamela Anderson usually chooses to not put on make-up — and so does the girl she performs in The Final Showgirl.

In a brand new interview with PEOPLE, Anderson, 57, explains why her character, Shelly — a Las Vegas dancer whose long-running present is coming to an in depth — eschewed cosmetics for probably the most half, until she was acting on stage.

“I needed to only how Shelly can be if she’s going to the grocery retailer,” explains Anderson. “I simply needed it to be uncooked and actual, and I used to be prepared for that and ready for that and enthusiastic about that.”

Whereas on the brink of movie every day, Anderson mentioned she turned away from the mirror. “I did not need that to be in my head in any respect about the best way that I seemed, until it was within the showgirl mirrors [in the movie],” she explains. 

Anderson, the previous Playboy mannequin and Baywatch icon, is incomes essential acclaim — and awards recognition — for her position in director Gia Coppola’s bittersweet drama a couple of girl at a crossroads. 

The actress says she was hungry for a chance to essentially dig into a task like Shelly, which Coppola hoped Anderson would take. 

She tracked down Anderson’s son Brandon to get her the script after the previous Barb Wire star’s agent handed on the film with out even telling his consumer.

“Then I learn it and I simply knew I needed to do it. It was very thrilling. And I additionally modified businesses,” she says.

“I did not have an actual sturdy agent or anybody with any imaginative and prescient or perception in me. Now I do, however solely as a result of I did The Final Showgirl. It’s a must to get a mission which you can sink your enamel into to point out folks that you just’re greater than the place you’ve got been pigeonholed,” she provides.

“And I simply did not suppose it was ever going to occur. And I felt like, ‘Boy, I actually blew it,’” says Anderson.

As soon as she signed on to the film, “I ready for it like I might a play,” she continues. “I knew the script from starting to finish in and out and backwards earlier than I even obtained to Las Vegas. However then you definitely throw it out the window and also you simply let Gia direct you.”

The Final Showgirl, which costars Jamie Lee Curtis, Brenda Track, Billie Lourd and Kiernan Shipka, is in theaters Friday, Jan. 10.

For extra on Pamela Anderson, decide up the brand new subject of PEOPLE.