Even though Pamela Anderson has been a redhead since early autumn, she says, “Sometimes I catch myself in the mirror and go, ‘Oh jeez. Who’s that?’” Even her mom told her, “This is going to take some getting used to.”

Not to worry, says Anderson, who made the change for her next role, in Love Is Not the Answer, a comedy directed by Michael Cera. “I’ll be blonde in no time or maybe a different color. Who knows?”

She calls her transformation “another form of freedom” — the latest surprise in a year that was full of them, from her performance in The Last Showgirl and the summer box office hit The Naked Gun to her much written about romance with costar Liam Neeson .

“I’m making the choices in my career and the way I look,” says the 58-year-old mom of sons Brandon, 29, and Dylan, 2

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