'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.”
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00:00 Oh my god! Morning!
00:03 [Laughter]
00:05 Careful with what you ask me.
00:07 [Music]
00:13 What the hell is this?
00:15 [Music]
00:17 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.
00:24 Yeah, well we...
00:25 With Craig, where we kind of went through the first three episodes and stuff.
00:27 And then we just sort of went...
00:30 Straight in.
00:31 Yeah.
00:32 But we really only sort of saw each other as Tommy and Pamela as well.
00:36 So there was this cool like...
00:38 It kind of felt really real and...
00:40 I texted Lily before we started shooting and I said,
00:45 "I'm going to really have to hold your hand for this whole thing.
00:49 And you can hold mine too."
00:51 Yeah, that's really good.
00:52 "And we're going to be okay."
00:54 But...
00:55 Yeah, it was great.
00:57 It felt really...
00:58 Like we really did trust each other.
01:00 And having Craig, who obviously Sebastian's worked with leading the way at the front.
01:04 It felt really...
01:06 You know, we had great conversations and felt...
01:10 We were definitely all on the same page and looking after each other.
01:13 Totally.
01:14 For the next few months, I am 24/7 barbed wire.
01:17 That's amazing!
01:19 Recreating barbed wire was amazing.
01:21 We did that section with Lake Bell, who was one of the directors.
01:24 She's so cool.
01:25 She's got so much energy.
01:27 It was just really, really wild and very, very surreal.
01:32 And Baywatch was...
01:33 I mean, it was just...
01:34 It was amazing.
01:35 A huge amount of, obviously, pressure and responsibility.
01:38 But I...
01:39 It was...
01:41 It was just very surreal and really quite thrilling.
01:45 I thought the scene we did in...
01:47 Two, when we're...
01:49 Oh, it's fun when we're watching TV.
01:52 And also when you cook the Greek dinner for me.
01:55 Yeah, I think the scene...
01:57 Yeah, I love those two scenes for sure.
01:59 I mean, when they're watching King and I.
02:02 Yeah!
02:03 I know!
02:05 I think it's the end of two, yeah.
02:07 But again, I think selfishly for me, right?
02:10 Like, I'll say I feel maybe more biased towards any of the scenes that they have together.
02:18 You know?
02:19 Because I think that sort of captured a very unique and intense and passionate kind of connection
02:28 that clearly they had.
02:31 Yeah.
02:32 Hi! The building manager sent me about your sink.
02:35 Oh, great! Thank you.
02:36 Come on in. Come on in.
02:38 I'm Erica, by the way.
02:45 I mean, there's not a lot about her, but there's enough.
02:50 You know, she's a really interesting woman.
02:52 She starred in all these pornographic films and started directing porn.
03:01 One of the first females to ever direct.
03:04 And then she became a physical therapist and got married and had a child and moved to Florida.
03:11 Just this very interesting woman who knew who she was and what she wasn't
03:18 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 on some level.
03:24 No. No way that thing's going in my ass.
03:28 And, yeah, I mean, there's some stuff on the internet, right?
03:33 But there's not a lot.
03:34 A lot of what I did was just chatting with the writers and who the Erica in the world of this show is.
03:44 Stop smiling. It's a fucking dungeon.
03:47 Seth is the kindest, most generous human.
03:50 And we had--it was like not a big deal, 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 on this show.
04:03 And everything was sort of planned 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.
04:14 That wasn't--it didn't serve the story.
04:15 But I thought it was awesome to see her at work.
04:19 I'm glad we could a little bit.
04:20 Everyone's beautiful and perfect.
04:24 Is that how you feel? Like you have to please people?
04:27 It's all I do.
04:28 [music]
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