Hulu’s Pam & Tommy reached its crescendo this week, showing us a few final bits of devastation before coming to an end. Just as Pamela Anderson ( Lily James ) …
Hulu’s Pam & Tommy reached its crescendo this week, showing us a few final bits of devastation before coming to an end. Just as Pamela Anderson ( Lily James) and husband Tommy Lee ( Sebastian Stan) think they’ve finally escaped the hell that was the sex tape scandal, a new horror arises: online video. Now that people can stream the video online whenever and wherever they want, the couple’s personal tape now belongs to the world. So what does that mean for Pam and Tommy as a couple? Nothing good. Pam & Tommy is Hulu’s gripping retelling of the sex scandal that rocked America in the mid-1990s. A few months after their whirlwind courtship, newlyweds Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee found themselves burgled by a disgruntled contractor. Rand Gauthier (Seth Rogen) stole Tommy Lee’s personal safe, expecting it only to be full of valuable jewelry, guns, and petty cash. He found all that and more: a private tape made by the couple on their honeymoon, never intended for anyone’s eyes but their own. Gauthier teamed up with friends from the world of pornography to sell the tape via the internet. It soon became a viral sensation, flooding the marketplace and ruining the reputations of its subjects. The final episode of Pam & Tommy premiered today and leaves the formerly blissful lovebirds on a sour note. Decider caught up with Sebastian Stan recently to chat about the final episode of Pam & Tommy, working with Lily James, and what he most hopes audiences take away from the Hulu series. DECIDER: I know that you mentioned in an interview recently, that one reason why you wanted to do [ Pam & Tommy] was to work with Craig Gillespie again. When I talked to him before the show came out, he was super effusive about working with you on I, Tonya and bringing you back. What is it about him that you like working with so much? And how would you describe that working relationship? SEBASTIAN STAN: It’s just, it’s trust, and he knows what he wants and he usually has the most uncommon thought on a common matter. (Laugh) It’s the one idea you haven’t thought of that sort of unlocks, the whole scene or the whole thing. He just has a really good radar for the temperature of the scene and the tone, and I feel he’s tackled very difficult subjects as a result of it because he really understands how to balance humor in certain difficult situations. And I just felt I did some of the best work with him, certainly on that movie and on this, you know. Your character, Tommy – obviously, horrible things are done to him through the distribution of the sex tape, but he also does some not-so-great things. Did that ever occur to you that there was a kind of a moral tight rope that you had to play with this character? Well, I think all human beings, and I, again, when I look at characters, whether they’re real life or you know, based on real life people or fictional, all human beings are complex and there’s flaws.
