How ‘Pam & Tommy’ Maintained the Spirit of Pamcore, the Hair-Metal Craze and a Drawer Full of G-strings

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re-creation, especially for Anderson, as the miniseries follows her many acting projects through the 1990s, including her failed movie opus “Barb Wire” and her hit show “Baywatch”, in which the actress was always trying, often in vain, to rise above the eye-candy status the show positioned her in.Says Lennox of the former: “The funny thing about the ‘Barb Wire’ costume is I contacted somebody that worked on it, Salvador Pérez Jr., and he was the assistant costume designer [for the film] and now he’s the president of my union!

So, I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to be recreating your work.’ And he was like,’ Go for it.’ He was very grateful for the call, but also very much ‘Do what you need to do’”.But the “Baywatch” costume needed a few modifications since costume designers are often not allowed to do exact replicas of existing pieces that include certain factors. “Clothing really isn’t copyrighted, but the graphics are.

The original graphic for Baywatch we were not allowed to use, so we recreated our own. And if you notice, comparing Lily to Pamela, the patch is on the other side, so it’s little tweaks that we had to do to not get ourselves in trouble, but it’s still very similar.

I think you have to change things maybe 30% to be able to use them.”And all of this is, of course, after a whole lot of hair and makeup is done (Stan and James prepped for shooting in the makeup chair for up to three or four hours quite often).