Lake Bell is getting candid for the primary time concerning the notorious movie star nude photograph leak of 2014.
Hacked snapshots of greater than 100 bare stars surfaced on websites reminiscent of imageboards 4chan, Imgur and Reddit — together with some pictures of Bell.
The “What Occurs in Vegas” star, 42, opened up about how the hack really helped her direct episodes of the brand new Hulu miniseries “Pam & Tommy,” which dives into the scandalous marriage of Pamela Anderson and her ex-husband, rocker Tommy Lee, and the way their personal intercourse tape was stolen again within the Nineteen Nineties.
“I bear in mind having to speak to an FBI recovering agent for every week or so about that property being stolen and it was so humiliating … and for me, it was so private,” Bell defined to Insider concerning the incident, which she mentioned was a part of an “unreal tsunami” that rocked Hollywood.
Bell’s expertise agent requested her if she wish to direct the restricted collection, which stars Lily James because the “Baywatch” icon and Sebastian Stan as Mötley Crüe member Lee. (The identical agent reps each Bell and James.) Bell revealed that recollections of the photograph leak got here again to her when she was pitched to direct. The mom of two determined she needed to face the previous and use the power in her work.
“Lily and I simply related about it and it grew to become about, how will we take this story and do it justice by not permitting for exploitation to but once more be the focus,” Bell added.
Bell continued, “Studying via the collection, I noticed that is shockingly clever in its manner of addressing exploitation whereas permitting for the viewer to snigger and revel in.”
The “Boston Authorized” actress directed Episodes 4 and seven of the present.
“The disorientation that Pam Anderson felt when her stuff went viral, which wasn’t even the phrase on the time, I simply have that information,” she continued. “Once I received hacked I went, ‘F–okay!’ It feels gross.”
She divulged that utilizing her personal exploited experiences on the mission has been therapeutic for her, saying she feels “related” to Anderson, as each ladies went via a public scandal that infiltrated their personal lives.
“The largest takeaway for me was Pam Anderson will not be a pushover. She was an individual who made robust selections and understood what her boundaries had been and people boundaries had been compromised,” Bell mentioned. “Most actors can join with the concept that simply because I posed on the duvet of a magazine bare, which I've performed a pair of occasions, it doesn’t imply you'll be able to take bare images that I took on my marriage ceremony evening and put them out on the web.”
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