But the opposition is merely warming up. The lawyer proceeds to humiliate Pam further by asking if she’s ever been paid for sex, which she vehemently denies. Using deliberately twisted logic, he then follows up by asking Pam if she doesn’t consider posing naked for a camera to be a sex act, which she again rebuffs in disgust.

Things get worse when Pam is asked in one particularly skin-crawling moment if she would stand to gain any financial benefits as a result of Penthouse being supplied with a copy of a tape “containing pornographic images”. Pam replies in cold fury that she knows of no reason why that would be the case, to which the lawyer then asks if she can explain why she and Tommy would make a pornographic tape if it wasn’t “like all your other pornographic activities for the purpose of financial gain”. It’s here that it becomes clear why Pam alone was called to the deposition: her career has been built upon images of her body, and in the eyes of the court, a sex tape is just another paycheck.

The horrifying deposition in episode 6 of Disney’s Pam & Tommy is Lily James’ greatest performance to date