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- Pamela Anderson gets friendly with her Naked Gun costar on the red carpet in London
- She and Liam Neeson costar in the upcoming NSFW comedy reboot
- The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva Schaffer, is in theaters Aug. 1
Pamela Anderson is showing her love for her costar Liam Neeson.
The 58-year-old actress planted a kiss on the cheek of her Naked Gun costar, 73, as the pair posed for pictures on the red carpet at the film’s U.K. premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, on Tuesday, July 22.
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Anderson plays Beth, a sultry femme fatale in the NSFW film, which sees Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of police detective Frank Drebin. He follows in his father’s footsteps for the reboot-sequel of the 1980s and ’90s crime comedies that originally starred the late Leslie Nielsen.
“I feel like I’ve just started my career now, so I’m just really excited to be such a part of this and to play a real character,” the Baywatch actress told PEOPLE at the premiere.
Since filming began, she has spoken highly of the filming process.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in June, Anderson promised the Akiva Schaffer-directed movie is “going to show a different side of me.”
“I feel every film I do lately is healing various parts of me,” she said. “And you need a big, messy life to draw from if you want to make these kinds of things interesting.”
She recalled being discovered by a cameraman in 1989 while attending a football game near her Canadian hometown and being thrust into the spotlight ever since.
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“I went straight to the Playboy Mansion, I met all these people, and then, you know, life just kept going,” she said. “I call them the blurry years. I just went on this crazy, wild ride that I had no control over,” Anderson said.
The Last Showgirl star has also gushed over her newfound friendship with Neeson.
“I think I have a friend forever in Liam,” she told Entertainment Weekly for their July 8 digital cover. “And we definitely have a connection that is very sincere, very loving, and he’s a good guy.”
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Anderson, a Golden Globe nominee, went on to call the Taken actor “a true artist.”
“He comes from theater and Schindler’s List and has done over a hundred films,” she told the outlet. “And I did things inside out and backwards, came from television, and then my personal life kind of overshadowed my professional life. It is funny: We all come to this place in different ways, but to be able to share this experience with him is very meaningful and such an honor.”
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Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu and Danny Huston also star in the upcoming film.
The Naked Gun, from Paramount Pictures, arrives in theaters Aug. 1.