'Pam & Tommy' Interviews | Sebastian Stan, Lily James and Taylor Schilling
Sebastian Stan, Lily James and Taylor Schilling talk about their favorite “Pam & Tommy” scenes, what it’s like portraying iconic figures in pop culture, and recreating infamous works like “Baywatch” and “Barb Wire.”
You can stream “Pam and Tommy” on Hulu now.
You can stream “Pam and Tommy” on Hulu now.
Transcript
00:00 Oh my god. Morning!
00:02 (laughing)
00:05 Careful with what you ask me.
00:06 (upbeat music)
00:09 What the hell is this?
00:14 (upbeat music)
00:16 We really didn't have very much rehearsal or anything.
00:20 Yeah.
00:21 So we--
00:22 Yeah, we have one rehearsal I think.
00:23 Yeah, where we--
00:24 With Craig, where we kinda went through
00:25 the first three episodes and stuff,
00:27 and then we just sort of went--
00:30 Straight in.
00:30 Yeah.
00:31 But we really only sort of saw each other
00:34 as Tommy and Pamela as well,
00:36 so there was this cool, like,
00:37 it kind of felt really real and--
00:40 I texted Lily before we started shooting
00:44 and I said, "I'm gonna really have to hold your hand
00:48 "for this whole thing, and you can hold mine too."
00:51 Yeah, that's how we did it.
00:52 "And we're gonna, you know, we're gonna be okay."
00:54 But--
00:55 Yeah, we did, it was great.
00:57 It felt really, like we really did trust each other,
01:00 and having Craig, who obviously Sebastian's worked with,
01:02 leading the way at the front,
01:04 it felt really, you know, we had great conversations
01:09 and felt we were definitely all on the same page
01:12 and looking after each other.
01:13 Totally.
01:14 For the next few months, I am 24/7 barbed wire.
01:17 (laughs)
01:18 That's amazing.
01:19 Recreating barbed wire was amazing.
01:21 We did that section with Lake Bell,
01:23 who was one of the directors, and she's so cool.
01:25 She's got so much energy, and it was just really,
01:28 really wild and very, very surreal.
01:31 And Baywatch was, I mean, it was just,
01:34 it was amazing.
01:34 A huge amount of, obviously, pressure and responsibility,
01:37 but I,
01:38 it was just very surreal and really quite thrilling.
01:44 I thought the scene we did in two, when we're,
01:48 oh, it's fun when we're watching the TV,
01:52 and also when you cook the Greek dinner for me.
01:54 Yeah, I think the scene, yeah,
01:57 I love those two scenes for sure.
01:59 I mean, when they're watching King and I.
02:02 (cheering)
02:04 I think it's the end of two, yeah.
02:06 But again, it's, I mean, I think selfishly for me, right,
02:10 like I'll say, I feel maybe more biased
02:13 towards any of the scenes that they have together.
02:17 (laughs)
02:18 You know, because I think that sort of captured
02:23 sort of a very unique and intense and passionate
02:27 kind of connection that clearly they had, so.
02:31 Yeah.
02:32 Hi, the building manager sent me about your sink.
02:34 Oh, great, thank you.
02:36 Come on in, come on in.
02:37 I'm Erica, by the way.
02:40 (upbeat music)
02:42 I mean, there's not a lot about her,
02:48 but there's enough, you know.
02:50 She's a really interesting woman.
02:52 She, you know, starred in all these,
02:55 in all these pornographic films
02:58 and started directing porn,
03:01 one of like the first females to ever direct.
03:04 And then she became a physical therapist
03:07 and got married and had a child and moved to Florida.
03:10 Just this very interesting woman
03:14 who knew who she was and what she wasn't
03:17 and didn't really give a shit about what anyone else thought,
03:21 which is, I think, what we all sort of aspire to
03:23 on some level.
03:24 Hmm, no, no way that thing's going in my ass.
03:27 And, yeah, I mean, there's some stuff on the internet,
03:32 right, but there's not a lot.
03:34 A lot of what I did was like just chatting with the writers
03:38 and what, who the Erica in the world of this show is.
03:43 Stop smiling.
03:45 It's a fucking dungeon.
03:46 Seth is the kindest, most generous human.
03:50 And we had, it was like not a big deal,
03:53 which is crazy, but that's what my experience was.
03:57 It was not a big deal.
03:58 They had this really great intimacy coordinator
04:00 on this show and everything was sort of planned
04:05 and prepped and talked about.
04:08 And, yeah, so it was a delight.
04:11 We didn't need to see Erica at work very often.
04:13 That wasn't, it didn't serve the story,
04:15 but I thought it was awesome to see her at work.
04:18 I'm glad we could a little bit.
04:20 Everyone's beautiful and perfect.
04:24 Is that how you feel?
04:25 Like you have to please people?
04:26 It's all I do.
04:27 (upbeat music)
04:30 ♪ Only thing for love ♪
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