Pam Grier opens up about how she still has injuries from her time on the set of Foxy Brown. In honor of the Jack Hill movie’s 50th anniversary, the actress visited Live with Kelly and Mark on Friday. In order to get revenge in the film from those responsible for her boyfriend’s death, Foxy Brown pursues a vigilante who poses as a sophisticated prostitute.
“I didn’t have a stunt double, so I had to look and appear convincing,” Pam shared with Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos about the movie. “I got hurt. … I have injuries.” She added, “It took years to prepare men in a patriarchal society to see a woman do martial arts, jump around, do stunts,” the Jackie Brown star said. “They weren’t prepared for it, and they found it offensive, and they oppressed a lot of our womanhood.”
The actress revealed that Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, the project based on her autobiography, will explore her early film career work with Roger Corman and the injuries she sustained on those sets.
“I didn’t think I’d walk away,” Grier said. “Every episode was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore until I get a stunt double.’ To show what it took to prepare our audience to accept a woman in a masculine role, which it is not today, 50 years later, I didn’t start it — it wasn’t me — but I knew I had to do it.”
For the unversed, Pam Grier is also known as cinema’s first Action Star and has featured in numerous stellar hits like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Coffy, Jackie Brown, Mars Attacks & many more.
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