Pamela Anderson revealed she has only seen The Naked Gun in an empty theatre with Liam Neeson.
Neeson stars in the critically acclaimed comedy spoof reboot as detective Frank Drebin Jr, who is investigating a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Anderson plays Beth Davenport, the sister of a man who has died under suspicious circumstances.
The film has opened to rave reviews and the pair’s chemistry, both on and offscreen, has sparked dating rumours, which neither has addressed head-on.
In an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, Anderson was asked if she’d seen the film with an audience, to which she responded: “No, I’ve only seen it once, with Liam in an empty theatre. It was interesting”
“It’s hard to watch yourself, even [for] Liam. It’s hard to be objective, I guess, but you play it straight. Otherwise it wouldn’t be funny,” she added.
The film sees the characters become romantically involved and, during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, the Taken star recently shed light on what it was like to film intimate sex scenes with Anderson.
It marked the first time Neeson had worked with an intimacy coordinator, an experience he described as “a little bit strange”, although he insisted that “Pamela and I knew… [what to do].”
“There’s an unexpected threesome,” commented Colbert on the scene, which involves a snowman.
“That was a first,” agreed Neeson. “That had to be specifically choreographed.”
The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey gave the four stars in her review, writing: “A part of Beth is certainly informed by Anderson’s history as a pop culture icon and her more recent reclamation of that image. Mostly, she’s a femme fatale who’s sillier and weirder than Priscilla Presley was ever allowed to be back in 1988 (two words: scat singing).
“[Neeson’s] Frank comes with a mischievous twinkle in his eye – he’s loving every second of it, and retroactively inviting us in on the joke of some of his past career choices. The question of how Neeson compares to Nielsen matters less than how perfectly he fits into a 2025 Naked Gun, which subtly shifts the punchline away from the self-seriousness of cop shows and towards the self-seriousness of cops themselves, in a world increasingly suspicious of their intent and authority.”
The original Naked Gun was written and directed by Airplane!’s Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker, and was based on their television series Police Squad!, which parodied the genre of police procedurals that were popular at the time.
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The original Naked Gun trilogy was hugely successful, making over $216m at the box office. The new film will be released on 1 August.
