There’s a scene in “The Last Showgirl ” where the namesake showgirl, Shelly ( Pamela Anderson ), auditions for a man whose voice we hear offstage. “Age?” he asks before the music starts. “Oh. A gentleman never asks a lady her age,” she says breathily with a nervous smile, then adds, “36? Sorry, I lied. I’m 42.”

Baywatch star Pamela Anderson recently opened up about a harrowing ordeal of how a man “almost killed” her ages ago. During an interaction with Josh Horowitz, Anderson revealed that someone mistook her for a “Dixie Chick” at an airplane,

Pamela Anderson is flying high at the moment thanks to the most glowing notices of her career in The Last Showgirl. But the actress and former Baywatch star revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week that years ago a man threatened to kill her on a plane when he mistook her for a member of country trio The Chicks.