Pam Grier — star of Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown, Coffy, The L Word and dozens more — isn't done making movies at 73.
After a recent spotlight in TCM's documentary podcast The Plot Thickens, Grier sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss her rules for dating, being an icon of 1970s feminism, her connection to 1960s music icons (Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon) and bringing her legacy to the new generation.
When asked about young fans just discovering her work, the actor shared that she's cooking up projects with today's stars: "I'm writing something for me and Cardi B," explained Grier.
She continued: "Not to mention my World War II movie that's about ready to shoot off, and then Foxy [a screen adaptation of her memoir] — but yeah. I love Cardi and 'WAP.'"
Grier went on to offer some advice to Cardi's "WAP" collaborator, Megan Thee Stallion, whose recent turn in the spotlight has been less than easy:
I love Megan Thee Stallion. I told her, "You and your artistry are beautiful. People are gonna punk you because a stallion is a male horse, but there's some really foxy mares!"
She's really good. She went to college. You got to have your goals. You're gonna have haters, you're gonna have jealousy, but just do your art, do your passion from your heart. She and Lizzo and Nicki Minaj and some of the others, they know — you gotta make your own style. You get to hire people later. But you come up with your own stuff, then you just draw people like a magnet, so collaborators make you greater and greater.
I want them to find that. Because we all come from our individual planets, with different beats and tones. Working with Quentin [Tarantino] is like being with a maestro. Sam Jackson, he has a very fast beat. Michael Keaton has a different tone; so did Robert Forster. And me, I'm a musician who has to play with each one of 'em in a different tone. That's what I do.
Read the interview here.
After a recent spotlight in TCM's documentary podcast The Plot Thickens, Grier sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss her rules for dating, being an icon of 1970s feminism, her connection to 1960s music icons (Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon) and bringing her legacy to the new generation.
When asked about young fans just discovering her work, the actor shared that she's cooking up projects with today's stars: "I'm writing something for me and Cardi B," explained Grier.
She continued: "Not to mention my World War II movie that's about ready to shoot off, and then Foxy [a screen adaptation of her memoir] — but yeah. I love Cardi and 'WAP.'"
Grier went on to offer some advice to Cardi's "WAP" collaborator, Megan Thee Stallion, whose recent turn in the spotlight has been less than easy:
I love Megan Thee Stallion. I told her, "You and your artistry are beautiful. People are gonna punk you because a stallion is a male horse, but there's some really foxy mares!"
She's really good. She went to college. You got to have your goals. You're gonna have haters, you're gonna have jealousy, but just do your art, do your passion from your heart. She and Lizzo and Nicki Minaj and some of the others, they know — you gotta make your own style. You get to hire people later. But you come up with your own stuff, then you just draw people like a magnet, so collaborators make you greater and greater.
I want them to find that. Because we all come from our individual planets, with different beats and tones. Working with Quentin [Tarantino] is like being with a maestro. Sam Jackson, he has a very fast beat. Michael Keaton has a different tone; so did Robert Forster. And me, I'm a musician who has to play with each one of 'em in a different tone. That's what I do.
Read the interview here.
