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Debbie Harry and Pamela Anderson to play mother and daughter in indie comedy film
‘Maitreya’ is written by ‘The Whale’s Samuel D. Hunter
Debbie Harry and Pamela Anderson are set to play mother and daughter in a new indie comedy film.
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The film in question will be titled Maitreya and it comes from screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter, known for the Brendan Fraser Oscar-winning film The Whale. It will be directed by Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia, Baskets).
An official description from independent studio Caviar states: “Maitreya (Anderson), a rising star in the New Age healing community, is about to head off to a conference in India when she receives a call from her estranged sister, Monica: their father is dying. Rather than stay home with him, Maitreya decides to bring her entire family – including her mother Barbara (Harry) – to the conference and put her New Age healing theories to the test (all while surreptitiously gathering material for her next book)”.
Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has had a long acting career, starring memorably in David Cronenberg’s landmark body horror Videodrome in 1983, as well as John Waters’ Hairspray, and has had supporting roles in Cop Land, Union City and Forever, Lulu.
Last year, she said that her dream actor to play her in a biopic would be Florence Pugh, a piece of casting that she said would put her “in heaven”. Kirsten Dunst was reportedly cast to play her as far back as 2007, but that project never came to fruition.
Pamela Anderson, meanwhile, has been enjoying a career renaissance, earning widespread acclaim for her turn in the indie drama The Last Showgirl in 2024, and following it up with the mainstream success of the remake of The Naked Gun last year, opposite Liam Neeson.
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She said in January that she left the Golden Globe Awards early to avoid Seth Rogen, because being around him “felt yucky”. Rogen produced the 2022 miniseries Pam & Tommy, which chronicles the fallout of the sex tape that Anderson made in the ‘90s with her then-husband Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. She has said she was not consulted about the series, describing it as “really crushing” and “salt in the wound”, labelling the producers as “assholes” who “still owe me a public apology”.
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Debbie Harry and Pamela Anderson are set to play mother and daughter in a new indie comedy film.
- READ MORE: Blondie on the ‘90s, ‘No Exit’, and how the future looks without Clem Burke
The film in question will be titled Maitreya and it comes from screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter, known for the Brendan Fraser Oscar-winning film The Whale. It will be directed by Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia, Baskets).
An official description from independent studio Caviar states: “Maitreya (Anderson), a rising star in the New Age healing community, is about to head off to a conference in India when she receives a call from her estranged sister, Monica: their father is dying. Rather than stay home with him, Maitreya decides to bring her entire family – including her mother Barbara (Harry) – to the conference and put her New Age healing theories to the test (all while surreptitiously gathering material for her next book)”.
Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has had a long acting career, starring memorably in David Cronenberg’s landmark body horror Videodrome in 1983, as well as John Waters’ Hairspray, and has had supporting roles in Cop Land, Union City and Forever, Lulu.
Last year, she said that her dream actor to play her in a biopic would be Florence Pugh, a piece of casting that she said would put her “in heaven”. Kirsten Dunst was reportedly cast to play her as far back as 2007, but that project never came to fruition.
Pamela Anderson, meanwhile, has been enjoying a career renaissance, earning widespread acclaim for her turn in the indie drama The Last Showgirl in 2024, and following it up with the mainstream success of the remake of The Naked Gun last year, opposite Liam Neeson.
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She said in January that she left the Golden Globe Awards early to avoid Seth Rogen, because being around him “felt yucky”. Rogen produced the 2022 miniseries Pam & Tommy, which chronicles the fallout of the sex tape that Anderson made in the ‘90s with her then-husband Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. She has said she was not consulted about the series, describing it as “really crushing” and “salt in the wound”, labelling the producers as “assholes” who “still owe me a public apology”.
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