Pam Grier is comfortable with being an icon
In the 1970s, the height of the blaxploitation film era, Pam Grier was the undisputed queen of the genre, and one of the few female lead action stars ever. To the movie-going public, she really was a one-woman hit squad – a gun-toting goddess who made her name in films like “Coffy,” “Sheba, Baby,” and the immortal “Foxy Brown,” where she fought against low-life drug dealers, and the idea that a woman couldn’t outfight a man.
“Not a lot of other women sought to emulate me, because it’s harsh, firing a gun – arms frighten people. Standing up to authority, standing up to injustice is daunting,” Grier said. “And I didn’t know any better, I guess!”
Pam Grier takes out some really bad guys in “Foxy Brown”:
But she always seemed to win, and in a long career she graduated to roles that didn’t involve breaking heads, like one opposite Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks in “Larry Crowne.”
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Source: cbsnews.com