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One of the great joys of director Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun is that movie-goers will be hard-pressed to identify the funniest moment: it's so consistently hilarious that your favorite may just be the one you most recently recall. That being said, one of the most memorable scenes in the new legacyquel is definitely Pamela Anderson taking the stage in a jazz club to perform an improvised scat song she dubs "Sassafras Chicken in D." It's a side-splitting bit – and I was shocked to learn about the extreme effort that went into filming it.

CinemaBlend's Jeff McCobb recently spoke with both Anderson and co-star Liam Neeson during the press day for The Naked Gun, and the very first question he asked the duo was about the actress's jazz performance. While you might think that she simply got on a stage and spouted a bunch of improvised nonsense into a microphone, the exact opposite was the case, as everything was scripted, and it took half a day to shoot it.
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00:00did they just let you go crazy how long how long was that take uh uh well it was it was 12 hours
00:07we shot it for 12 hours but i it was much longer and it was scripted so this was not ad-libbed
00:15this was akiva yeah they wrote this out they and i worked with somebody on it and i memorized it and
00:22i still sing it in the shower i can't get it out of my head i did not expect that well you know
00:27you also have a history with the saxophone did they ever think about bringing out the sax i was
00:31scared to tell akiva anything about my sax playing because that might have ended up in it yeah i play
00:37saxophone um not well but i do play i love jazz it's i think the imperfect quality to jazz it suits me
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