Pamela Anderson's thoughtful birthday gift for Naked Gun co-star Liam Neeson
Pamela Anderson gifted her Naked Gun co-star Liam Neeson a rare first-edition book after they formed a bond on set.
The actor was nervous about working with the Ballymena man for the first time, but she had nothing to fear.
Pammie (58) said: 'It was just a rehearsal, the scene where I come to tell him about my murdered brother, wearing my femme-fatale beret.
'But still, meeting Liam and everybody for the first time... for me it's always really hard, (but) we just had a ball. I was always showering him with loaves of bread and cookies and muffins.
'There was a little bookshop on the set, and he found this poetry book by Ibsen, and he was explaining to me a little bit about him.
'For his birthday, I got him a first-edition Hemingway. He's always got a book in hand, same with me.
'We need a Naked Gun in the climate we're in right now. You know, slapstick, giggles, silly humour.'
Anderson and Neeson in The Naked Gun
Liam (73) was full of praise for his co-star, who found fame on Baywatch.
He said: 'This beautiful actress arrived on set, no airs or graces, no big ego.
'She's a cook, a gardener, she reads a lot of poetry... she's just a great woman, she really is.
'Pamela is terrific in it. There's a great cast. And, as Clint Eastwood says, I'm my usual adequate self.'
Liam also told Empire he wanted to make the role of Frank Drebin Jr his own and did not try to ape Leslie Nielsen from the original films.
He said: 'I did not want to emulate the wonderful Leslie. The thing I grabbed from him was 'Be serious. Don't try to be funny. Stick to being a serious cop who is a bit of a doofus'.'
Family Guy and Ted creator Seth McFarlane, who is producing the reboot, pinpointed Liam for the role.
Director Akiva Schaffer said: 'Not only is Liam one of the last 'gravitas' leading men, he also is one of the only ones that has barely used it for comedy. Liam's got his own things, but they're not Leslie's things.
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'It'd be unfair (to ask Neeson to ape Nielsen) because he'd be trying to match another human being with a whiole different, forgive me, set of skills (a nod to Neeson's role in Taken).
'A friend of mine, when I was just starting to write, was like 'It feels to me like your assignment is, what's the funniest thing that you can make Liam Neeson say?'
Anderson and Neeson in The Naked Gun
'He was actually the most game for the most silly stuff. I was constantly surprised.
'He would be adding fart jokes, and I'd have to be like 'Remember, three scenes earlier, we have a fart joke, so if you do it here, it might be too early'.'
The Naked Gun is due to be released in cinemas on August 1
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