Pamela Anderson Baked Sourdough Bread For 'The Naked Gun' Costar Liam Neeson — and He Shares His Review (Exclusive)
Speaking with PEOPLE while promoting the new comedy The Naked Gun, the former Baywatch actress, 58, revealed she baked her costar, 73, cookies and sourdough bread and left the treats for him in his dressing room.
The Taken star was quite, well, taken by her talent in the kitchen. Asked how he'd rate her baking skills, Neeson calls them 'superb.'
'That sourdough bread was something else,' he adds. 'And I know the effort it takes.'
Neeson admits he didn't return the favor due to his lack of kitchen skills. 'I'm so not a cook, nor a baker. I'm not. But I did appreciate the gesture very, very much.'
As for what inspired Anderson to fire up the oven on location in Atlanta where they filmed, she says, 'I bake bread at home, and I have my garden. And I just felt like that was... I had a kitchen, so why not use it?' (Anderson previously hyped her bread in a conversation with Martha Stewart for Elle Magazine, explaining that her "really good" sourdough is thanks to her starter, which she named Astrid.)
Anderson and Neeson are an unlikely comedic duo in The Naked Gun, an update of the classic 1988 slapstick comedy starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley.
In this version (out Aug. 1), Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Nielsen's character. Like his namesake father, he's a bumbling lieutenant at L.A.'s Police Squad who must avert disaster.
Anderson costars as femme fatale Beth Davenport, Drebin's love interest—and his deadpan partner in verbal volleying. ('U.C.L.A.?'Frank asks about Beth's alma mater while gazing at the city skyline. 'I see it every day,' she replies. 'I live here.')
The two immediately hit it off when they got to work. 'We had a wonderful, natural chemistry, and it was a joy to watch and learn from a master,' Anderson says of working with Neeson. 'I really learned a lot from being on that set, and it was just a joy every day.'
Neeson's first impression of Anderson was a positive one. 'I felt Pamela had no airs and graces or inflated ego, [she] seemed just sensitive and warm, open, vulnerable, beautiful,' he says.
Their bond is forged in mutual respect — and carbohydrates. 'We're friends for life, like it or not,' quips Anderson.Read the original article on People
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