Pam Grier reveals why she turned down a Bond Girl role in Octopussy. 'I just felt to be a Bond girl would be: What am I going to do? Am I going to help rescue him? Is he rescuing me? A Bond girl is an afterthought, a CliffsNote, perhaps.'
Pam Grier recently shared why she turned down a Bond Girl role in Octopussy. The actor began her career in the early 1970s starring in women-in-prison films before making a name for herself as the lead in several violent vigilante Blaxploitation films including Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Friday Foster. Although her career waned in the 1980s when the exploitation genres fell out of favor, Grier bounced back with the lead role in Quentin Tarantino's hit crime drama, Jackie Brown.
My agents had me meet with the Broccoli family, and I'm going, 'I'm not available.' They looked at me and said, 'Well, why are you here?' I go, 'I don't know. My agent told me to come meet.' But I just wanted to do really in-depth character pieces that weren't predictable. I turned down everything.
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