1990s icon Pamela Anderson has revealed that she is not a fan of the 2017 big screen adaptation of “Baywatch,” the syndicated TV series that was once the planet’s biggest show and turned her into a global star.
Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron left the film which was a major sendup of the original show – but the movie tanked – drawing terrible reviews and a decent but not great $177 million globally.
In a new interview with Andy Cohen, Anderson was asked about her honest thoughts on the film. She said: “I didn’t like it. Let’s just keep the bad TV as bad TV. That’s what’s charming about Baywatch, you know? Trying to make these movies out of television, is just messing with it.”
The original “Baywatch” was famously a low budget series, with its various male and female cast members running in slow motion being the ‘money shots’. Anderson thinks those involved should’ve been more frugal: “$65 million would make a good movie. We made our show for like $500,000. You have the same explosions, the same sequences of water, that’s the fun part. Being creative.”
