‘Foxy Brown’, AKA Pam Grier, Will See Stage And TV Adaptations Of Her Works

Pam Grier was a guest this week on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and revealed there are big plans afoot for her legendary 1974 Blaxploitation classic, Foxy Brown.

“We’re going to be doing Foxy Brown also as a musical,” Grier announced, but didn’t provide many details. She also shared that a studio is producing a seven-episode limited series based on her 2010 memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.

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The series will detail her relationships with basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the comedians Freddie Prinze and Richard Pryor.

“It can’t be a seven-hour movie, but it’s going to be a [limited] series like the series I’m promoting today, Them, so it’ll be seven episodes, shot like a film,” the actress said.

Foxy Brown was part of a Blaxploitation trilogy, sandwiched between Coffy and Jackie Brown.

“Foxy was strategically more radical and aggressive,” Grier said earlier to EW. “I wanted to show that side of womanhood. My aunt basically was a Foxy Brown — she rode a Harley, she wanted to be an architect, and she was beautiful. She was way ahead of her time.”

Grier was an advocate for female stunt performers.

“It was very important to be authentic, because now I’m responsible for teaching a patriarchal society that a woman could be a martial artist, that could stand up to aggression,” Grier told Hudson. Authenticity came at a price that Grier was unwilling to pay, so she demanded a stunt double. That was J.D. Davis.

“She made me look good,” Grier added, “To this day, all of the women have a stunt double. So they’re not injured, so they can do the work, do the acting, and let the stunt double do the professional moves and you can go back and no one’s injured. You don’t want to get injured for what? A movie? We’re more important. We’ve gotta live past the filmmaking so that when you have that, that’s an industry. And they make you look so good.”

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