[Music] an emotional Billy Lord called her experience on geopal as the last show girl extremely cathartic sharing that it made her feel closer to her late mother Carrie fiser and grandmother Debbie Reynolds I was just sobbing backstage so excuse me in advance an overcome lord said after taking the stage with her collaborators including co-stars Pamela Anderson and Jim Lee Curtis following the film's world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on Friday this movie was deeply meaningful to me she continued when I met with Gia I spoke about my mom and Grandma's relationship getting to play this character was extremely cathartic for me because it felt like Anderson's character shell was my grandma and I got to be my mom I got to understand my mom on a deeper level than I ever had and it was a beautiful experience lord said and to do that with Pamela was an absolute gift gift she is a wonderful mother and was also a beautiful mother to me on this film and I feel so lucky Anderson gave her co-star a big hug on stage in response fiser died December 27th 2016 from Cardiac Arrest at the age of 60 Reynolds died one day after the death of her daughter from an apparent stroke at 84 speaking with grief therapist and new day podcast host CLA Bidell Smith in 2021 lord said it was really really really brutal to lose her mother and grandmother at the same time I still hesitate and stutter because it's really hard for me she said I miss my mom every day Lord plays Hannah in the last showgirl a drama centered on Anderson Shelly a l Vegas show girl of 30 years and the centerpiece of Sin City's last remaining traditional FL show when Shell's stage manager Eddie played by Dave Bautista announces that the show will permanently shutter in two weeks she and her co-workers are forced to contend with their future which looks different when you're 50 rather than 20 and your sole job skill is dancing per the synopsis all the while a distraught Shelly tries to reconnect with her arrange daughter Hannah which proves just as difficult as losing the only job she has ever had with best friend Annette Curtis a cocktail waitress who laughs a little too loud and too often by her side Shelly must find her place in the world beyond the glittering lights and Stage Brenda Song Kier and sh and Jason schwarzman also star