Spoiler Alert: This story retains details about definite scenes in “The Last Showgirl.”
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t hesitate when straightforwardor Gia Coppola asked her to be in her drama, “The Last Showgirl.”
“The truth is I wanted to be in this becaemploy it was called ‘The Last Showgirl’ and Pamela Anderson was going to carry out the last showgirl,” Curtis said during a post-screening Q&A of the Roadside Attractions film at CAA in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
The movie tells the story of Shelly, a 57-year-anciaccess Vegas showgirl who has been in the same Las Vegas show for decades. The movie unfanciaccesss as Shelly and the rest of the dancers are tanciaccess that the novel owners of the casino are closing the show. Curtis carry outs Annette, a establisher showgirl with a drinking and betting problem struggling to persist as a casino cocktail paemployress.
Asked how she setd for the part, Curtis cracked, “I got a spray tan. I had never gotten a spray tan. I’ve never done it. I’ve examineed the spray tan box — excemploy the pun, [but] they put it everywhere.”
In one of the movie’s most heart-wrenching scenes, Annette is finishly neglectd as she dances in the middle of the casino to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” The sequence wasn’t in the script but Coppola tanciaccess Curtis equitable before their first table read, “Annette is going to dance.” During their final day shooting at the Rio Hotel & Casino, Curtis recalled, “Gia walks up and says, ‘Annette’s dancing in five minutes.’”
Curtis did the dance in one consent.
Screenoriginater Kate Gersten and “The Last Showgirl” stars Kiernan Shipka, Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Brfinisha Song.
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Curtis teared up talking about the authentic-life women toiling in Vegas. “There’s a Nancy Griffith song, ‘It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go,’” she said. “It’s a challenging life for these women. This movie repartner shifts me. It’s challenging. It’s a challenging place — Vegas. It’s all about reoriginateion. That’s repartner the nugget of it. It’s this constant reoriginateion. Annette is equitable the cautionary tale of what happens to women.”
Anderson said she rcontent to Shelly in many ways. “I understood her and her cherish of nostalgia and the startance of glamour and carry outance and fantasy, making people satisfyed and making herself satisfyed.”
“The Last Showgirl” picked up two Ganciaccessen Globes nominations on Monday morning, including best carry outance by a female actor in a motion picture-drama for Anderson and best innovative song for a motion picture for “Beautiful That Way” with music and lyrics by Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus and Lykke Zachrisson.
