Pamela Adlon on That Louie Scene Were Going For a Feeling
Louis C.K. startled fans when he featured an uncomfortable  and controversial  scene in his show Louie last month during the episode "Pamela, Part 1." In the episode, Louie attempts to kiss his friend Pamela played by co-producer Pamela Adlon against her will and ends up chasing her around his apartment, grabbing at her as she attempts to get away from him. Pamela even spells it out, telling Louie  as he's grabbing at her  that he "can't even rape well!" Eventually Louie manages to kiss Pamela before she's finally able to leave. Many viewers were put-off by the scene  which quickly became known as the "rape" scene  and were left wondering just what Louis C.K. and Louie were up to. As TIME's James Poniewozik wrote about the scene in June "It feels terrible to watchnot just the grappling, but the cringing kiss Louie coerces out of Pamela, and the fist-pump he gives himself afterward. And there's no reason to doubt Louis C.K. meant it to look and feel precisely that terrible.", Now, in an interview with Vulture, Adlon herself has commented on the controversial scene, saying that she initially found the whole confrontation hilarious, Adlon also disagrees with people who viewed the eventual kiss as forced, adding that her character consented at the end of the scene. But if Aldon thinks fans shouldn't be wondering what to think about the outcome of that scene, she's also quick to note that the response that the episode triggered  although largely negative  wasn't unwelcome, Considering Poniewozik, not to mention many other viewers, have noted that watching that scene felt terrible, it sounds like Louis and Adlon achieved at least part of their mission. Vulture