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Tarantino was just coming off directing and promoting Pulp Fiction, one of the most successful films of the decade. Grier was just coming off a cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...
...Today Grier throws back her dark avalanche of curls and laughs when she tells that story. On Christmas Day Tarantino's highly anticipated crime drama, Jackie Brown, will open--and Grier is indeed in the title role, alongside A-listers Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro...
Jackson, De Niro...Grier? If you watch Grier's blaxploitation flicks, you can see what Tarantino may have seen in her (MGM is re-releasing both Coffy and Foxy Brown on video, rechristening them "Soul Cinema"). In her most popular films, Grier played a strong woman out for revenge. "This is the end of your rotten life, you motherf___ing dope pusher," she cries in Coffy before blowing a dealer's head off. Grier was a woman of action well before Thelma met Louise, or Ripley encountered aliens. In 1975 Ms. magazine put her on its cover. She was also...
...Grier found work in more conventional action films. Says Jack Hill, the white director of Coffy and Foxy Brown: "She wanted to play a more glamorous and respectable character than what she had done with me." But in doing so, Grier became more of a nostalgic figure than an iconic celebrity...
Jackie Brown could make her a true mainstream star. She plays an airline stewardess who teams up with a white bail bondsman to steal half a million dollars from a gunrunning black thug. The film starts with a long, loving shot of Grier as she glides down a walkway through an airport. "I hope this film does for Pam what working for Quentin has done for other people," says co-star Jackson, alluding to his own post-Tarantino success and John Travolta's as well...