'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.”
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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