hello everyone welcome back my channel the last show Girl star Pamela Anderson says being underestimated her entire career has had at advantages for most of her career Pamela Anderson has been confined to the label of sex symbol gracing many covers of Playboy magazine and making red swimsuits iconic thanks to her role in television's Baywatch the 57-year-old actress says she's been underestimated by Hollywood but that she's been part of the problem as well I underestimated myself too she said during variety Studio while appearing at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend to promote her upcoming film The Last showgirl I think that you got to believe in yourself for others to believe in you she added Anderson's real life parallels her character in the movie A Las Vegas dancer getting pushed out of the industry due to her age Anderson says securing this large of a role this late in her career came at the right time last year Anderson released her impactful documentary Pamela a love story which delved into her personal life behind the camera and showed a different side to the bombshell everything just came at the right time the stars have really aligned this feels like such a dream experience and I watched the movie I felt like it was a dream doing the movie it felt like a dream and now it just also feels very surreal like I'm going to wake up and this isn't really happening and then I'll be really pissed she joked joked I feel so blessed and fortunate that I get this opportunity and chance to kind of have this life that I've thought I could have a long time ago and just you know things get interrupted life Interrupted having nothing to live up to is kind of a good position to be in she joked earlier you can surprise everybody even with a full sentence you're a genius e but no it's timing I just think timing and having the capacity to focus Gia Copla the director of the film was asked why she believes Anderson has been passed over despite her longevity in the industry I feel like being a beautiful woman you get typ casted in a way and I'm so drawn to actors in general that I feel like they have to express so much more and have so much more to themselves but then get pigeonholed into this typ cast she explained I like working with actors that really want that chance because it becomes such a fulfilling collaboration Copa also spoke about how she nabs the actress for her flick I kind of came across a picture of her I guess you were promoting your documentary and there was this sort of gut feeling of well what about her Copa said but I didn't know too much about you at that time and then my other cousin Matt Shire was like I know who your Shelly is it's Pamela watch her documentary and I did and I was like you're absolutely right like no one else can be her I have to go find her asking for permission from Anderson to to tell the rest of the story Copa explained that she initially had a hurdle to overcome I submitted the script to her old agent and it got turned down within an hour and then I was able to find a way through Brandon Lee your son to get her the script Copa added