Honesty is the Best Policy for Actress Pamela Adlon

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How do you explain to your children that you portray a character on television that does drugs and acts out in obscene ways? For Californication star Pamela Adlon, she chose to be honest and upfront with her daughters instead of hiding it. Recently the actress sat down with her 11-year-old daughter to explain to her the difference between real life and television, in case any of her classmates were to make comments to her. She told her daughter that it’s "not appropriate for kids to be watching this. It’s a show for grown-ups."

"I’m extremely proud of the show I’m doing and the work I’m doing, andit doesn’t say anything bad or wrong or anything I’m ashamed of. Ifsomebody says something to you or tries to make you feel embarrassed orsays that I should be embarrassed, I’m not. And you shouldn’t beeither, O.K.?"

Pamela, who also does the voice of King of the Hill‘s Bobby Hill, shares that sometimes her days are a little off the wall and that her life is "like this little secret that I keep with me throughout the day." Her typical day would include going to "do the King of the Hill table read, thenI’d go to Californication, do some weird sex scene or drug thing, andthen go pick up my kids from school." She will then be "with the moms at school, and I’m like, ‘You would never believewhat I did today.’"

Pamela, 42, is married to Felix Adlon. Californication airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on Showtime.

Source: New York Times

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Comments

I love Californication — she’s one of my faves on the show. I can definitely understand why she would be sitting down and having this talk with her children. I’m glad she has and is willing to do so, because it is definitely necessary! That show is pretty outrageous.

- Emily on November 30th, 2008

Californication is one of my very favorite shows! Marcy cracks me up, I love how HAnk calls her “cokey-smurf”. Too funny.

- Mo on December 1st, 2008

That show is freakin’ AWESOME! Excellent writing, excellent acting, excellent producing. I hope SOOOO bad for David Duchovny & all the other actors involved it gets a few more good seasons under its belt. The show is cast so well you would think that Karen and her daughter are really mother and daughter. Good for Pamela talking to her girls on the front end about it. And Pamela plays her part perfectly!

- Allie on December 1st, 2008

It is so nice to see a change from the usual, uninteresting, repetitive regular celebrity mothers constantly featured on this blog!
Pamela Adlon is a great actress, she doesn’t get the attention as an actress that I think she deserves.
She is hilarious on Californication, and was also really funny on the Louis CK created series that was cancelled before it should have been ‘Lucky Louie’. She has been doing voice overs for cartoons for years, and I bet you all didn’t know she played Paulettes little sister Dolores in the movie Grease 2!
Good for Pamela to be proud of her TV shows, although inapropriate for her children to watch, she knows it is and handles discussing it with her children appropriately.

- Vegas on December 2nd, 2008