[Music] Jam Lee Curtis was moved to tears at the world premiere of her new movie The Last showgirl at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival we had never seen it so we're sharing that moment with you Curtis told the audience through tears after the screening there's this Nancy Griffith song it's a hard life wherever you go it's a really hard life for people and in Vegas it's a really hard life director G cop's highly anticipated drama Stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly a veteran lost Vegas Entertainer who after 30 years on stage must confront the next chapter of her life after her show abruptly closes Curtis plays Anette a cocktail waitress who used to be a showgirl with Shelly in L razzled Dazzle the last showg girl show in Sin City I just think the PO Andy of the storytelling of every single person's story through screenwriter Kate gon his words and G's Direction and the Beautiful camera work it's explicit to see Curtis said and I'm just a product of that same reality you know who Annette is every single one of you know and Anette it's a movie about dreams and going after your dreams but of course the dreams become a really harsh effi reality and for women it's a really harsh reality that men don't have as much Curtis then joked that a spray tan helps a lot when getting in a character for this film I'd never had one she added as she laughed through her te tears and you have to stand there and they put it everywhere I had never done that but I'll shut up and stop crying earlier in the post screening Q&A Anderson revealed that she had been getting ready my whole life for this role also it's the first time I ever read a good script she added I never had a script given to me that was coherent so I was like I'm the only one who can do this I've never felt that strongly about something after that I thought you know what I have nothing to lose I'm just going to do it just be it Tiff runs September 5th to 15th