Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sparked a firestorm when their intercourse tape was launched to the general public again within the late Nineties.
And the forthcoming Hulu sequence “Pam & Tommy” is ready to shed new mild on how the frisky footage was stolen and posted to the web, altering Hollywood tradition without end.
An prolonged trailer for the eight-part biographical drama — starring Lily James as Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Lee — dropped Wednesday, and reveals disgruntled electrician Rand Gauthier nabbing the naughty video from the celebrity couple’s protected.
Gauthier is performed by Seth Rogen within the sequence, together with his character seen sneaking into Anderson and Lee’s Malibu mansion below the duvet of darkness to steal the protected, later discovering the X-rated tape inside.
In line with a 2014 article in Rolling Stone, Gauthier determined to steal the protected again in 1995, claiming the couple had not paid him for $20,000 of electrical work he did at their Malibu residence.
Gauthier had no concept that the protected contained an express tape of the couple, however he quickly capitalized on his bombshell discover, creating an internet site promoting bootleg copies of the video.
The footage ultimately unfold far and broad, with “Pam & Tommy” additionally set to look at the fallout from the frisky house film.
“You don’t appear to know what an enormous deal that is,” James, enjoying Anderson, may be seen saying within the trailer.
“I’m on the tape the identical as you,” Stan, as Lee, replies.
James — whose transformation into the “Baywatch” babe has garnered widespread press consideration — then states: “It’s worse for me.”
In actual life, Anderson filed a lawsuit towards Web Leisure Group, the corporate that distributed the intercourse tape. She and Lee later reached a settlement with the enterprise.
The video, which is broadly credited as the primary movie star intercourse tape, went on to make greater than $77 million worldwide, in response to Rolling Stone.
“Pam & Tommy” shall be directed by Australian Craig Gillespie, who beforehand helmed “I, Tonya” — one other biographical drama about a ’90s scandal spurred by the general public’s moralizing judgments of a bombshell blonde.
Viewers left feedback beneath the brand new trailer, claiming they couldn’t look ahead to the primary episode to hit Hulu on Feb. 2.
“Director of ‘I, Tonya’ and Lilly James is sufficient to promote me on it!” one said.
“This is likely to be essentially the most craziest present to be based mostly on a real story ever,” one other enthused.
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