Hulu was "extremely supportive" of Pam & Tommy's "talking penis" scene after some "gentle pushback"

Variety

In Episode 2 of the Hulu limited series, Tommy Lee is depicted having a "heart-to-heart" chat with his penis -- voiced by Jason Mantzoukas -- over whether he's falling in love with Pamela Anderson. The scene is inspired by a passage in Lee's memoir Tommyland. “As much as I’d like to take credit for that, I was simply adapting a chapter from (Lee’s) memoir,” writer Robert Siegel tells Variety. “I think it might be a first (for television). There was gentle pushback, because you’ve got to push back a little when a talking penis is presented to you. But Hulu was extremely supportive.” From a technical perspective, director and executive producer Craig Gillespie describes shooting the scene as “just awkward. You’ve got four puppeteers working with an animatronic penis. And then, how much is too much, and do you start to lose his emotional torment of what’s going on? Hopefully it works.”

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