Yes, this is Lily James – actress dons Pamela Anderson’s iconic Baywatch swimsuit for Pam and Tommy filming and we’re seeing double

Some may throw around the term ‘unrecognisable’ willy nilly, but we have to say we are truly seeing double as Lily James brought out the iconic red Baywatch swimsuit to play Pamela Anderson.

The Mama Mia star has taken on the role of Pammy in an upcoming biopic and whether or not you’re on board the project’s existence – ahem Courtney Love – there is no arguing Lily is the spitting image of the icon.

Taking to the beach to film scenes for the upcoming series Pam and Tommy – which will chart Pamela’s marriage to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee – recently, Lily was seen sporting a bleach blonde wig, the legendary swimsuit, and enough prosthetics to sink straight to the bottom and need David Hasselhoff to cruise in on his flotation device and save the day.

Even the eyebrows are a carbon copy (and as many will attest, eyebrows in any situation are a downright pest to get right) and are taking us straight back to the 90s, kicking and screaming.

We have no doubt Lily is a grade-A actress, but can we please reserve a round of applause for the hair and make-up team on this one?

It’s not the first time we’ve seen Lily kitted out as Pamela, after the star shared a peek at her in full costume earlier this month – but that doesn’t mean we’re gasping any less.

Lily and Sebastian Stan (playing Tommy) replicated the iconic picture of Pamela tugging on her husband’s nipple ring with her teeth in the first look at the show, but the real mind-blowing transformation came in a solo shot of Lily.

The star had disappeared beneath blonde curls, contact lenses, make-up and a leather lace-up corset, while Pamela’s trademark barbed wire tattoo on her arm completed the body-swap.

Pam and Tommy will star Lily and Sebastian in the titular lead roles in Hulu’s upcoming series, which will depict the couple at the time of their whirlwind marriage in the 1990s as well as the infamous leak of their sex tape.

Four days after their first meeting in 1995, Pamela and Tommy wed on a beach in Cancun. They were married for three years and share two sons together – Brandon Thomas, born in 1996, and Dylan Jagger, born in 1997.

After filming their sexual activities during their honeymoon, the tape was stolen from their home and distributed online, an incident that will be portrayed in the series (with Seth Rogen serving as both executive producer as well as playing the man who stole the former couple’s tape).

Sadly, though, it won’t have two viewers in Pam and Hole rocker Courtney, who recently slammed the production in a Facebook post.

Recalling what it was like when Pamela and Tommy’s sex tape was stolen and leaked to the public, saying that it ‘destroyed’ her close pal, Courtney shared a picture of an article about the show and wrote: ‘I find this so f***ing outrageous.’

Courtney, who said she was working on an album at the time, stated that ‘ALL! The staff engineers / producers / owners were watching the sex tape with huge schadenfraude’.

She added: ‘It was disgusting. I banned anyone discussing it.

‘It destroyed my friend Pamela’s life. Utterly.’

Courtney said that she was reportedly ‘asked to approve use [of] a Rolling Stone cover of mine shot by Mark Seliger in this piece of s**t’, to which she said she responded: ‘F**k no.’

‘Gentleman don’t approve this sort of thing. My heart goes out to Pammy. Further causing her complex trauma,’ she wrote.

The musician then added: ‘And shame on Lily James whoever the f**k she is.’

Earlier this month, a friend of Pamela’s also reportedly spoke out to disclose how she felt about her depiction in the TV series.

Speaking to The Sun, the source said: ‘Pamela has no intention of watching this God awful show, absolutely not. Never.’

They added that Pamela had ‘never heard of the actors playing her and Tommy’, adding that she supposedly sees the show as ‘a cheap knock-off’.

Pam and Tommy is due to air later this year on Hulu.

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