Baywatch babe and animal activist Pamela Anderson is set to star alongside Liam Neeson in a remake of action comedy film series The Naked Gun.

Neeson has described the original films, which starred Priscilla Presley, as a good giggle, and Anderson has confirmed she will play a ‘femme fatale’ and nightclub singer who seeks out the Police Squad (and Neeson’s Detective Frank Drebin) after her brother is murdered. Anderson has insisted audiences will be able to tell she plays a femme fatale ‘because I wear a beret’.

The trailer for the upcoming film has turned heads due to a certain raunchy and explicit scene that depicts a sex scene between the two leads. Except it’s an optical illusion.

We see a villain looking into what looks to be Drebin’s apartment using night vision goggles, finding the pair in what looks like a sex act, but is in reality Anderson’s character Beth on her knees cleaning an oven with Neeson’s Drebin standing near her. There’s a slapstick vibe about the whole thing, which looks to be a lot of fun.

‘Our chemistry was clear from the start. We have the utmost respect for one another,’ Anderson said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly last month, describing how the pair shared professional but intimate dinners together.

‘I invited him and his assistant over for romantic dinners with me and my assistant so our relationship stayed “professionally romantic” during filming,’ she said.

They reportedly bonded over their shared ‘love of literature and a good laugh’ and Anderson said that she left cookies, muffins, and homebaked sourdough bread in Neeson’s dressing room.’I am in awe of him, his experience, and work ethic. I soaked him in like a sponge,’ she said.

Of the film, which is out this summer, she added: ‘I’m hoping people love it. We had so much fun making it. I think it’s timely for a beloved comedy like this. I’m a fan of the originals. As Liam says, “We could all use a good giggle.” I pray we do more.’

Neeson has answered in kind about his fond feelings for Anderson in an interview with People. ‘I’m madly in love with her,’ he said. ‘No huge ego. She just comes in to do the work. She’s funny and so easy to work with. She’s going to be terrific in the film.’

‘Whether I can carry it or not, I honestly don’t know,’ he said of his doubts around his comedy skills in The Naked Gun. 

But Anderson was quick to disagree, calling the actor ‘humble’. “It was hard to keep a straight face in scenes together,” she says, calling him ‘the perfect gentleman’. 

‘He brings out the best in you… with respect, kindness and depth of experience. It was an absolute honour to work with him.’

Anderson is also set to star in upcoming thriller Rosebush Pruning, directed by Karim Aïnouz and starring Elle Fanning, Riley Keough, Lukas Gage, Callum Turner, Jamie Bell, Tracy Letts and Elena Anaya. She has talked about playing a character aged slightly older than herself, at 57 years old. 

She describes the movie’s plot as centred around a dysfunctional family: “I leave my family to the wolves, but it all gets turned around on me real quick.” 

Anderson has also opened up about the restorative time she spent two years ago, after her marriage to bodyguard Dan Hayhurst ended. ‘I spent some time for myself, stripping away this caricature that I created, because I’d started believing that it was true,’ she said. ‘You have to have self-acceptance, and I honestly believed it was over, that life. It was like a death, in a way. But it was the beginning.’ 

She has since starred in the gorgeous, star-studded Gia Coppola film The Last Showgirl alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song and Billie Lourd.

‘I worked hard on the role, another cathartic experience,’ she says of playing showgirl Shelly. ‘Every film, it seems, tackles a deep-seated issue that needs to be expressed and surfaced in ways other than anything else.’

Anderson further opened up about the nuances of her character, and the complications around a woman’s socially mandated role to set a ‘good example’, and  ‘showing that you can follow your dreams, and we don’t have to play these roles that have been society’s roles for us.

‘It’s always a fight, I think, for women. For some reason, we’re always explaining ourselves and our choices. I’m always explaining myself and my past.’

She also described how her role in The Last Showgirl reminded her of what she was capable of.

‘I feel like I’ve finally been able to access part of what I’m capable of,’ she said. ‘If I never do anything else, I have done something. I feel like this has really been the catalyst for the rest of my life.’