Iconic Canadian actress Pamela Anderson will probably be honored at the twentieth Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) with the competition’s Golden Eye award in honor of her “versatile career.” Anderson will current her newest characteristic, Gia Coppola’s The Final Showgirl, at the 2024 Zurich Festival and can obtain her award on Oct.4.
In The Final Showgirl, which premiered in Toronto, Anderson performs Shelley, a 50-year-old showgirl dealing with the tip of her long-running Las Vegas present. THR‘s evaluation praised her efficiency, performed “with an undiluted sense of heartbreak”
“She completely immersed herself in her character, turned Shelley’s inner life inside out with her facial expressions and made sure that we sympathized with her,” stated ZFF Inventive Director Christian Jungen, who referred to as Anderson’s flip within the movie “a terrific performance, perhaps the best of her career, which deserves an Oscar nomination.”
The Final Showgirl co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Annette, Shelley’s colleague who helps her navigate an unsure future, Billie Lourd as her estranged daughter Hannah and Kiernan Shipka and Brenda Tune as two of Shelley’s youthful showgirl colleagues. Dave Bautista performs Eddie, the present’s stage supervisor who has a private historical past with Shelley.
Anderson and director Gia Coppola will current The Final Showgirl to the competition viewers after the Golden Eye award ceremony.
Different VIPs being honored at Zurich this yr embrace Alicia Vikander, Jude Regulation and Kate Winslet. Roeg Sutherland, co-head of CAA’s Media Finance division and its Worldwide Film Group, will obtain ZFF’s Sport Changer Award for his excellent achievements and contributions inside the movie trade.
The twentieth Zurich Film Festival runs Oct. 3-13.