Pamela Anderson Joins Movie "Place To Be"

Following her comeback role in the awards-season movie "The Last Showgirl", Pamela Anderson has found her next feature project, and that’s Kornél Mundruczó’s poignant drama "Place to Be".

The pic from the filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated Pieces of a Woman also stars Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi. Cameras are rolling in Sydney.

Mundruczó says he’s “thrilled” to have drawn together such a diverse and talented cast.

Anderson was nominated for SAG, Golden Globe, and Gotham awards for Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, in which she plays a veteran Vegas dancer whose legendary show finally shuts down.

"Place to Be", written by Kata Wéber (Pieces of a Woman, White God), follows no-nonsense Brooke (Burstyn) and discombobulated divorcee Nelson (Waititi) as they travel from Chicago to New York to return a lost racing pigeon home.

Anderson will play Molly, Brooke’s daughter, who is finding her feet after the end of her second marriage. Anxious about rehoming her elderly mother, she is resistant to any plan to move her to a retirement facility.

WME Independent is handling international sales. "Place to Be" is backed by S’YA Concept with further funding by Screen NSW, through the state’s Made In NSW program.

The movie is produced by Jomon Thomas (Monkey Man, Hotel Mumbai), Megan Wynn (Together, Poker Face), and Alexander Rodnyansky (Loveless, Beanpole).

EPs are Natalya Pavchinskaya (S’YA Concept), Stuart Manashil, Pankaj Mamtora (Lonestar Films), Kanesh Mohana Sundaram (GVKM Elephant Pictures), Ashley Levinson, Sam Levinson, Viktoria Petranyi, David Edelstein and the late Kevin Turen.

Anderson stars next in Paramount’s summer reboot of "Naked Gun" opposite Liam Neeson. 

Later in the year, she will appear in Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning with Riley Keough, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning Jamie Bell, Lucas Gage, and Tracy Letts. 

Among her other recent acting work, Anderson made her Broadway debut in 2022 as Roxy Hart in Chicago, for which she received critical acclaim across the board and a Playbill Award. Anderson broke out on Baywatch, starring in 110 episodes from 1992-97. 

"Pieces of a Woman|, from Netflix, starred Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf and Burstyn. The pic notched Kirby a Best Actress Oscar nomination, as well as Golden Globe and SAG noms. Kirby won the Volpi Cup out of the pic’s world premiere in Venice with the movie also taking the Arca CinemaGiovani Award.