{"id":166365,"date":"2022-12-23T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-pam-grier-thought-shed-be-fired-from-quentin-tarantinos-1997-hit\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:56:06","slug":"why-pam-grier-thought-shed-be-fired-from-quentin-tarantinos-1997-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-pam-grier-thought-shed-be-fired-from-quentin-tarantinos-1997-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pam Grier thought she’d be fired from Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 hit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pam Grier and Quentin Tarantino on the set of Jackie Brown <\/em>in 1997. (Photo: Miramax\/Courtesy Everett Collection)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Most performers would feel honored when a prominent filmmaker creates a leading role specifically for them. But when Quentin Tarantino told Pam Grier that he crafted his third feature, 1997’s Jackie Brown<\/em>, <\/em>with her in mind for the eponymous character, the game-changing Blaxploitation icon had a very different reaction. “I thought, ‘I’m in trouble,'” Grier reveals to Yahoo Entertainment ahead of Jackie Brown<\/em>‘s 25h anniversary on Dec. 25. “I’m gonna have to work really hard, because I don’t want to be fired!”<\/p>\n

In fact, Grier was so uncertain about taking Tarantino up on his offer that she avoided calling him back after she read the Jackie Brown <\/em>script for the first time. “He was waiting for me to call him, and I was waiting for him to call me” she remembers, laughing. “He was getting worried, and he told [producer] Lawrence Bender, ‘What if she doesn’t like it? We don’t have anyone else!’ He was concerned, and rightfully so.”<\/p>\n

After a few weeks went by, Grier discovered the reason why she hadn’t heard from the director. “I read the note he had written on the back of the script and realized I was supposed to have called him weeks ago! I figured that he had probably recast the role, but I called him and said, ‘I love the script. What character am I?’ And he said, ‘You’re <\/em>Jackie Brown.'”<\/p>\n

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