'Pam & Tommy' 're-traumatized' Pamela Anderson. Her Netflix doc shows it in real time
When filmmaker Ryan White was an adolescent in the mid-'90s, Pamela Anderson was one of the most famous women in the world — a Playboy cover girl who rose to international superstardom as lifeguard C.J. Parker in the syndicated mega-hit "Baywatch," married Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee after a whirlwind four-day romance and became ensnared in an early internet scandal when an intimate home video of her and Lee was stolen and distributed online.
But White hadn't thought about Anderson much in a long time when, a few years ago, he was approached about making the actor the subject of his next documentary.
Though he was intrigued by the broad strokes of Anderson's story, White was also wary of the image-conscious meddling that usually happens with celebrity subjects.
That all changed when, at the urging of Anderson's elder son, Brandon Lee, White met with Anderson, who had recently moved back to her hometown in British Columbia, over Zoom. They ended up talking for hours.
"I was so compelled by the woman in my little Zoom box. She totally blew up all of my preconceived notions of who Pamela Anderson was," said White, whose previous credits include "The Keepers," about the murder of
