‘Pam & Tommy’ trailer shows steamy sex tape being stolen from a safe
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sparked a firestorm when their sex tape was released to the public back in the late 1990s.
And the forthcoming Hulu series “Pam & Tommy” is set to shed new light on how the frisky footage was stolen and posted to the internet, changing Hollywood culture forever.
An extended trailer for the eight-part biographical drama — starring Lily James as Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Lee — dropped Wednesday, and shows disgruntled electrician Rand Gauthier nabbing the naughty video from the superstar couple’s safe.
Gauthier is played by Seth Rogen in the series, with his character seen sneaking into Anderson and Lee’s Malibu mansion under the cover of darkness to steal the safe, later discovering the X-rated tape inside.
According to a 2014 article in Rolling Stone, Gauthier decided to steal the safe back in 1995, claiming the couple had not paid him for $20,000 of electrical work he did at their Malibu residence.
Gauthier had no idea that the safe contained an explicit tape of the couple, but he soon capitalized on his bombshell find, creating a website selling bootleg copies of the video.
The footage eventually spread far and wide, with “Pam & Tommy” also set to examine the fallout from the frisky home movie.
“You don’t seem to understand what a big deal this is,” James, playing Anderson, can be seen saying in the trailer.
“I’m on the tape the same as you,” Stan, as Lee, replies.
James — whose transformation into the “Baywatch” babe has garnered widespread press attention — then states: “It’s worse for me.”
In real life, Anderson filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, the company that distributed the sex tape. She and Lee later reached a settlement with the business.
The video, which is widely credited as the first celebrity sex tape, went on to make more than $77 million worldwide, according to Rolling Stone.
“Pam & Tommy” will be directed by Australian Craig Gillespie, who previously helmed “I, Tonya” — another biographical drama about a ’90s scandal spurred by the public’s moralizing judgments of a bombshell blonde.
Viewers left comments beneath the new trailer, claiming they couldn’t wait for the first episode to hit Hulu on Feb. 2.
“Director of ‘I, Tonya’ and Lilly James is enough to sell me on it!” one stated.
“This might be the most craziest show to be based on a true story ever,” another enthused.
