Netflix has announced that it will function residence to a definitive documentary on Pamela Anderson’s life, a month after the restricted sequence Pam & Tommy debuted on Hulu. According to Entertainment Weekly, Anderson vowed by no means to look at the Hulu sequence, which focuses on the actress’ brief marriage with Tommy Lee and the theft and unlawful distribution of their intercourse tape, and even its trailer. While the Hulu sequence was created with out the involvement and even the permission of the actress, Anderson herself promoted the Netflix documentary on Instagram. 

“Not a victim, but a survivor and alive to tell the real story,” she stated in a handwritten be aware she posted on the app. The documentary movie will characteristic interviews with Anderson, together with beforehand unreleased archival footage and journals. Netflix guarantees that the popular culture icon will “set the record straight” and that the film, directed by Ryan White (The Keepers), will paint an “intimate portrait” of her. In comparability, the Hulu sequence was primarily based on a 2014 Rolling Stone article and fictionalized some elements of the particular occasions. 

Anderson’s camp additionally reportedly took subject with the truth that the Hulu sequence used clips from the precise intercourse tape, which grew to become one of many first ever viral intercourse movies. According to The Washington Post, that tape demonstrated how highly effective the web is, even throughout its early days, as a platform for the intercourse trade and content material distribution as an entire. 

While Anderson’s intercourse tape debacle went down within the ’90s, the rivalry between streaming giants immediate them to seek out new methods to get into present discussions and occasions. Netflix and Hulu every launched their very own Fyre Festival documentaries up to now, for example, in addition to their very own takes on Britney Spears’ life and profession.