'After Baywatch' Director Matthew Felker Discusses Pamela Anderson's Absence From Docuseries
We also caught up with Matthew Felker, the director of the new docuseries, who claimed Pamela had been open to participating ... until Hulu's "Pam & Tommy" series bothered her.
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00:02Know Pamela Anderson wasn't involved. Yeah, were you bombed? What was did she give you a reason why she didn't do it?
00:07We I mean we chased her for a long time
00:09I mean we understand we started this way before the Pam and Tommy thing on Hulu. We started this way before her documentary
00:16We talked to her people. We would never I mean say I live in Malibu. It's very very small
00:22I used to live in the Paradise Cove trailer park four doors down from her so she's around. It's a small community
00:29And you know, we tried really hard and it was during the pandemic and she had been in Canada
00:33and I think she was open to it and
00:35Then the Pam and Tommy thing came out which kind of jarred her and then she had this big
00:39Opportunity as a rebuttal to tell her side of the story and it makes sense
00:43Like why am I gonna give that to you? I'm gonna go do my own thing. And my thing was you can do both
00:50Her son Brandon managed is her and I called Brandon. I'm like, hey, this is Matt and he goes click
00:56Oh wow
00:58That was that was our last sort of yeah
01:02Effort and we had like a couple months and I just said, you know, if she really wants to get involved to be great
01:06Yeah, we would love for her to really curate her own story. Yeah
01:10And he had no interest so we tried any message for her now
01:14She's great. And you know, we we hope we we
01:18Told her story correctly and in the best way we could and we hope she's happy with it. Yeah, so yeah
01:23Everyone loves her the whole cast loves her. Yeah, I think the cast was more bummed
01:28Than anything the cat the cast I think felt a little letdown that she didn't do it. Yeah, it's very family
01:33so they're like why you know, we're a family and
01:35you know families are dysfunctional and they come apart and they come together and they really felt this was a time that
01:41Everyone could kind of come together for this kind of one last send-off type
01:44I mean, this is a you know, it's a 30-something year old brand. I mean how much longer we can be talking about Baywatch?