Jackie Brown - Interview with Pam Grier & Quentin Tarantino (1997)

[@jeremyturner745]

I love how Quentin lets her do the interview and is just there for support. Both are special.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

He adored her. She is a special woman.

[@ubwcolt]

He really only chimed in to add his perspective on what a unique star she was. Really cool to seem him so respectful and deferential here

[@theninjacat7200]

Such an interesting comment from Quentin Tarantino...Jim Brown and other black males were always referred to as 'the black Bruce Lee' or 'the Black etc'. There was no white female equivalent to Pam Grier. She was and still is unique.

[@chriscatterall6891]

I would compare her to Raquel Welch

[@hermanmelville3871]

She's mesmerizing. It's a shame we can't run the clock back and haver another 50 years of her in cinema.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

She truly is. She comes to mind when I think of perfect women.

[@max917]

I could listen to Pam Grier speak forever.

[@arriuscalpurniuspiso]

She's so articulate and lovely

[@TheJadariusExperience]

Pam Grier prime never ended she was pushing for 50 in this interview and looks no older than 30.😍😍😍😍

[@kellyf5004]

Amen to that! She looked so good too!

[@caravaggio31]

I could never think she was almost 50 here until I wrote your comment.

[@waynej2608]

A very attractive woman, at any age.

[@martinvanburen4578]

she looks 30, I had no idea she was 50 at the time.

[@bigsweetc6]

She looks great. My least favorite part of Jackie Brown is that awful hair they gave her in the movie.

[@jamilabrown6093]

I know QT thinks it’s a failure now but I think Jackie Brown is one of his best films. And it’s because of the sentimentality. His movies are always interesting and have these interesting characters but there’s something about the character of Jackie that’s refreshing to me because she’s so real.And I might be biased because she’s a black woman like me, but I like how grounded this movie and protagonist is as much as I like how outlandish and surreal Inglorious Basterds is. The hardcore Tarantino fans who overlook Jackie Brown don’t know good cinema imo. It’s about more than ‘cool shots’ and ‘badass moments’. It’s about story and character and I love it. It really warms me whenever I watch it or hear that Delfonics song.

[@johndean4727]

Im a hardcore Qt fan and let me tell you Jackie Brown is his best.

[@cruzmartinez666]

Im a 25 year old white kid and jackie brown is hands down his best movie to date.

[@diibadaa9502]

Where he has said it's a failure? At least in El Reys interview he said JB is one of his best films.

[@rafimakaro8043]

This is definitely his masterpiece...

[@mov-e6612]

Right, Jacky Brown is easily in the top 3 best Tarantino movies

[@ffrederickskitty214]

Jackie Brown is Tarantino’s masterpiece. A beautifully crafted film.

[@crumdoggy]

Only Tarantino film without a lot of gore I think. A superb film.

[@scottystcloud7086]

@@crumdoggy I always thought it was bad bc I watched it as a teenager back in the day but I re-watched it yesterday and yea, its a little slow, but its a great great movie. Def now in my top 5 QT rankings

[@BeatlesFan1975]

He has 9 masterpieces, u didn't know that?? 😅

[@MagnumMuscle1000]

Jackie Brown holds up better than most 25 year old films and is one of Tarantino's best. Grier and Bob Forster were both fantastic.

[@TheTrueMasterOfTheFist]

Holds up for a 25 year old movie? Hahaha sorry but movies today don’t hold up, they’re trash!

[@Puppy_Puppington]

@@TheTrueMasterOfTheFisthey. There’s some gems still being made. It’s rare but they’re out there. Great writing. Direction. Cinematography. Acting. There’s still a decent amount of gems that are relatively modern. Within the last 20-30 years. One of the most important pieces for me of the many many many that create the masterpieces is the music composition. Ennio morricone blessed us with a lot in the last few decades before his death. 😢. Quentin Tarantino still alive The coen brothers are still alive. Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott. Steven Spielberg. John Williams is still alive. Zimmerman. Sam Raimi. There’s still a lot of potential out there. And new master directors actors and composers as well are coming one day or already amongst us. Sometimes it’s indie films. Sometimes we get lucky and it becomes main stream. Either way I still have hope for them. Do you know what sounds good right now? Either a band of Brothers style mini series or a movie that uses a little bit of historical accuracy, but still enough fiction and plot armor to keep it interesting like fury. But instead it a B-17 flying Fortress crew story.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

Jackie brown will still be amazing in another 25 years. One of the best adapted books for cinema in history.

[@ldp2212]

Pam Grier is a beauty of cinema.

[@angeljohnson6665]

Lucas D'Peder bernadette stanis is iconic black beauty do you know who she is? id choose her over pam anyday!!!

[@wiseonwords]

@@angeljohnson6665 - Aren't you special. ;)

[@angeljohnson6665]

Dennis Lewis do you agree with me i mean pam grier is ok but bernadette was a natural black beauty

[@kellyf5004]

You must either be her or related to her cause nobody knows that old woman! Now Pam , everyone knows her

[@lf1496]

@@kellyf5004 Bernadette Stanis was the daughter on the 70's show "Good Times". Janet Jackson was a child actor on the show It's called Google 🙄 This woman was a beautiful woman too. There doesn't have to be just ONE version of black beauty. Be nice and don't insult our elders. Who raised you? Shame on you👆🏿👆🏾

[@maddestmax6522]

The genius of this movie. Is that when the bail bonds man sees Jackie for the first time is what we all felt when we saw her

[@DigitalGus75]

Jackie Brown is right near the top of Tarantinos films. The more you watch it, the more you appreciate how bloody good that film is.

[@wiseauserious8750]

Yeah, I remember seeing it when it came out as a 19-year-old in was thoroughly unimpressed. Watching it now at 44, it's a masterpiece

[@MrHartApart]

LOO ISSSSSSS

[@Ryan-br6np]

@@coolnamebro L take

[@okrambo1]

@@coolnamebro What an L take. De Niro was an AMAZING cast as Louis Gara, the way he made his character really feel like a guy that has been locked up for 4 years that is trying to rediscover the outside was so good. The parking lot scene was just as great. You don't know what you're watching. It's an easy 8/10 movie.

[@davegreen2009]

A very very underrated film but it is worth watching especially pam’s acting she is fantastic

[@bendjinzau2495]

You could tell those guys are under the incredible charm of Pam Grier. What a legend she is.

[@davidh.8798]

They did each other proud; he created a great part for her, and she absolutely nailed it for him. Perfect.

[@jorisw_]

She calls Quentin 'Cute', for 'QT'. How cute is that.

[@angeljohnson6665]

Joris W bernadette stanis is finer then pam!!!!

[@paulpeterson4216]

I've seen QT in interviews. I can only imagine how hard he's having to bite his tongue to not jump in. Props to him for doing so. I love his movies, Jackie Brown may be his best; but, he loves the sound of his own voice almost as much as he loves making movies.

[@ghost_rider2809]

Jackie Brown will always be my favourite movie from QT

[@ratchetleague1285]

Pam was really really beautiful in the 90's. Without that whole plastic surgery revolution.

[@DowntownTasty]

Absolutely stunning. Honestly 90% of the time, plastic surgery winds up backfiring on these people. The golden rule with plastic surgery tho is “less is more.” You want just very slight alterations and in small numbers.

[@dementednun1175]

That's Hollywood you need to look 25 at 55 to still work look how hard and tell me pams last movie

[@danielbuxton4493]

Pam Grier came here to Birmingham to show 'Coffy' a couple of weeks ago and was still so alluring, so full of charisma - a true old-fashioned movie star!

[@kirbyc9042]

I wish she showed up in more tarantino films 😭

[@boomerang905]

Billy Dee Williams was always the Black Clark Gable. With the Black community they were just our gorgeous Stars. There is definitely only one person that comes close to being Pam Grier and that IS Pam Grier. Nice, ultra talent and rare beauty. She's gained legend status. Beautywise they compared her to Rachel Welch.

[@alexpurtle7293]

That VOICE....oh ma gawd!!!!

[@warrenbfeagins]

Lord JESUS!! This was the first crush I ever had. I had to be like 5 years old when Foxy Brown came out in 72-73. I looked up at that screen, saw her and thought an angel has descended from heaven to be among us. One of the best lookin women I ever saw. She's nearly 50 in THIS interview.

[@paulscanter5562]

I remember seeing the movie thinking this woman hasn’t aged a bit! She’s still got it!

[@eXuo]

When I first saw Jackie Brown in the cinema I didn't like it much. Now it's my one of, if not, my favorite Tarantino movie.

[@jpgiuliotti]

Loved Grier in Jackie Brown. Loved her answers toward the end of the interview about not having expectations of a dream coming true but just being there doing the work in her "tenure of Earth". Perfect attitude and man...what a knockout she is.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

She's a realist. No delusions of granduer, but understands the highs and lows and ebbs with the flow. She is in the hall of fame of beauties.

[@colorfields]

She's so great, imposing and humble. Hands down should have won best actress for this movie

[@arriuscalpurniuspiso]

She won it in my eyes

[@krishshautriya5170]

And she was not even nominated.

[@myfriendisaac]

14:07 Pam put life & texture into Jackie! Her performance was perfect 👏🏾🎬🍿

[@lukess.s]

Best actress in a musical or comedy? What a way of dismissing how insanely great and emotionally affecting Jackie Brown is.

[@swapblue]

Pam looks so beautiful here and sounds so good…❤

[@paulstaker8861]

Wow Pam in real life is a really sweet gentlelike woman. Thought I couldn't even be more in love.

[@guyanasun4361]

This was a really great movie. Well written and equally performed by the main actors particularly Pam Grier.

[@Weroderwas]

yes. Elmore Leonards wrote this amazing Book. Tarantino made the movie out of it. Its called Rum Punch

[@baguette3000-V2]

Quentin is so in love with cinema , actors and actresses . Pam is a good reason anyway to spend time!!

[@1qwasz12]

She's such a gorgeous person. I loved Jackie Brown.

[@mattcastellanos2178]

She looks great, looked great in JB, and delivered a powerhouse performance. Went back and watched Coffey, true star power.

[@TheGreatAlan75]

I bet even at this time, she thought she was getting old or past her prime, just because she was middle aged. Fast forward to 2018 and it's obvious how young she is in 1997

[@CharlesHarpolek4vud]

Two artists of the cinema. Pam is the real thing.

[@wheel631]

For some reason I waited a long time before watching this despite being a huge QT fan. Now this is one of my favorite QT films ..

[@BrandonFer]

It's sad she didn't get bigger roles. My favorite role of hers was in Jawbreaker, which wasn't HUGE. But huge to me.

[@donnahill2178]

A time and place for everything. I think she moved on at her pace at the right time. Such a good actress and person.

[@ricardomanuelpena6594]

Pam Grier was the sexiest women in the 70s, l love Pam l had a crush on her as a teenager, God bless her always!!!☺️😊🤗🤔

[@OrdinaryG33K-SF]

Wow, she's so Beautiful!

[@angeljohnson6665]

Eric Hope bernadette stanis is finer!!!

[@boebender]

My favorite QT film all because of her performance, her and SLJ! Classic!!

[@MissB2483]

The FIRST female action star. PERIOD! #QueenPamGrier👑❤

[@eoinoconnell185]

Nope. Jennifer Lawrence is the first female action star 😂

[@gabrielegagliardi3956]

Jennifer Lawrence was so delusional, both blaxploitation and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies had heroines and action women. Moreover Alien, Nikita, Terminator and a lot of other mainstream movies had much more "badass" female characters. Jennifer Lawrence's Hunger games is the American weaker version of the Japanese movie Battle Royale. Oscar winning actress ahhaahha.

[@KutWrite]

Timeless beauty! It's March 2024 and I'm gonna watch this again tonight.

[@xeropunt5749]

Sincerity, is being straightforward with people. Don’t play no games, everyone’s got “little hearts” that they don’t want broken.

[@kawamikazecheant]

Pulp Fiction, True Romance & Jackie Brown 🔥 Those 3 ones are just perfect, great casting, acting, storytelling And Tony Scott really respected Quentin Tarantino's material with true Romance too

[@rareman2577]

Pam is a beautiful woman

[@angholloway5091]

Her and bernadette stanis are beautiful and fine as wine in the summertime!!!

[@waynej2608]

Yes, she is!

[@olgaparush]

my God, isn't she just so irresistibly charming? I couldn't take my eyes of her during the whole interview

[@ambo9569]

Aint no other woman like Pam Grier 😍🖤🙌🏼

[@AngelHoll]

Bernadette the daughter on good times she is definitely more beautiful than Pam grier!!!

[@Jesus-wi1tt]

Tarantinos female characters are always so interesting and real. Especially Jackie Brown.

[@jeffdawson2786]

I forgot how pretty her smile is.

[@troyevanthompson]

Wow. The woman is even cooler than the cool as heck character she was portraying. Thank you for posting!!! Love the film and now appreciate her even more.

[@chessclinic]

What an amazing woman! And yes, I loved Jackie Brown also.

[@jovanakrivokapic]

A GODDESS

[@angeljohnson6665]

gdjicaDelRey bernadette stanis is finer then pam agreed?

[@taratate8366]

Angel Johnson no

[@angeljohnson6665]

Tara Tate you dont even know who bernadette is do you? If so you wouldnt be saying no

[@kellyf5004]

@Angela Johnson exactly she don’t know who she is in fact nobody knows who she is because this Bernadette is a NOBODY! Smh..

[@michaeltekulsky5665]

She’s pretty breathtaking here. Not to mention smart 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jamesdooling4139]

This woman is a beauty and a talent.

[@angeljohnson6665]

James Dooling bernadette stanis is finer

[@b.l.fisher8230]

I had a friend who would see this older lady in the grocery store. One day she saw Pam Grier in the store with her. It slowly dawned on her that she was Pam's mom. She told me, (this was about 2014) "She is one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen." She was no makeup, in a grocery store...

[@johnkearns6048]

Why doesn't this have a Millons of views 😳

[@GreenCheesePizza]

All 👁️can do is smile 😊 & Thank GOD for Ms Pam Grier🙏🏿 CELEBRATION 🥳 🎊 🎉

[@tommynightmare5614]

The lovely and talented.

[@monicaburman-sp3mi]

So extremely charming..beautiful Pam.

[@propolispropolis657]

Pam not only is a gorgeous actress but also a fascinating and great personality. 😍❤️💋🔥

[@CruderQuotient1]

She's so elegant

[@MarcoMalfario]

The Ultimate Cool Chick

[@PurushaDesa]

It's really bad how our collective unconscious biases just write certain films with Black performances out of history - even when we enjoyed them at the time. People forget Jackie Brown in the Quentin Tarantino filmography just like they forget one of Denzel Washington's most important performances, Malcolm X. It's like a White balance in our heads. I think Jackie Brown is among the very best of QT's films and it's a shame it's never translated into a Pam Grier renaissance.

[@yani2499]

Jackie Brown is a great movie. Quentin is arguably the greatest director ever. The man spoils us with infinite interesting dialogue.

[@nekitamol1k242]

No, Jackie Brown was never a hit to begin with. Stop making everything about race.

[@PurushaDesa]

@@nekitamol1k242 The fact that it was never a hit is partly about race. It’s weird that you changed what I said to make it sound like I pretended this was a big film when it’s one of the least talked about of Tarantino’s works. As it stands, it is a truly excellent Elmore Leonard adaptation while still retaining QT’s unmistakable voice.

[@tonywords6713]

@@PurushaDesa not really.. it's a victim of circumstance coming out after Pulp Fiction and being so different and slow. Django Unchained didn't have any trouble because it follows the crowd formula.

[@PurushaDesa]

@@tonywords6713 Don’t know about that. Jamie Foxx has been due a major career bounce for a while and he certainly earns it in Django - alas it didn’t really happen. All the attention went to Christoph Waltz from what I recall.

[@RollOpeo1]

Her voice sounds very similar to meryl streep in this interview, funny. I watch jackie brown every few years 💟

[@francovio7837]

10:50 first time i heard Quentin saying he hasn’t watched a film that someone is talking about

[@ode4014]

What are the names of movies she listed?

[@TheBlacksheep]

@@ode4014Soul Food and Eve’s Bayou (which Roger Ebert listed as his number 1 favorite movie of the year)

[@zeljkokaradzic7894]

What a charisma.She is amasing.

[@luisclaudiodossantos5542]

Two legends of acting and movies

[@m.4623]

Pam Grier is still Beautiful...and very Real!!. 💗💗💗💗💗

[@angeljohnson6665]

Merly I. Bernadette (jj sister good times) is one of the finest sistas ever to grace primetime tv sorry but pam grier has nothing on her

[@jumpedintheriverwhatdidise5499]

Jackie Brown is one of his best movies, Pam Grier was mesmerising in it

[@paulstaker8861]

Normally interviews where Quentin gets a spectator seat gets a head shake from me but it's Pam on spotlight so it gets a pass.

[@darkqueen12]

Paul Staker well actually Charlie Rose had Quentin as a guest for an hour, and then came Pam for the 15min. That’s why he said at the beginning we talked enough about him, now you.

[@adolphsanchez1429]

One of the most beautiful women in the world. I love her blaxploitation films and loved Jackie Brown as well.

[@JohnMiller-jb2dw]

She's incredibly hot!

[@EstebanGunn]

Hard not to fall in love with her.

[@theopinion9452]

I still remember watching 1 of her movies in Cuba back in '86 or so,I was just a teenager but she looked so fine to me!

[@zhakreayounes5883]

She is gorgeous & talented actor.

[@JosephHuether]

I love this movie! Pam’s character had this crooked smile that totally knocks me out every time I see it.

[@CoolMikey81]

It’s nice to hear someone else talk other the Tarantino Lol

[@al1976-v7m]

Yeah he shows he can listen, too!

[@JBomb517]

She's so real

[@rdmineer1]

If I was Max I would have very soon been in Spain.

[@julianyc422]

Pam is so incredably beautiful, in her body lauguage, grace and just so darn beautiful.

[@davidm9618]

Ms. Grier is so well-spoken and - more importantly - able to address the inappropriate questions from the host, who, let's face it, is out for dirt in whatever color, sex, etc., he can produce.

[@brandocalrissian3294]

I've met her twice while serving tables and she is very sweet and loves her fans. This movie is in my top 10 of all time favorites.

[@Dana-wq5tp]

I've loved many of Tarantino's movies but Jackie Brown is my favorite and I do objectively think it's his best work.

[@brijeshdas3331]

She was 48 at this interview.

[@tonyng7234]

shocked

[@JaniceRaelSaid]

Great interview for a great movie. I'd say Jackie Brown is maybe #2 (for me) in my rank of Tarantino movies, with Pulp Fiction at #1 ... oh, but, Reservoir Dogs... anyway. AWESOME role, epic role. Pam Grier has always been a queen and goddess whose altar I would kneel before. Ohh she's great. Pam's reclaiming her own fame and her own career was and is the main reason why I like the movie. Plus, it is a damn good movie. The soundtrack is also perfect! Oh yeah! It's my favorite Tarantino soundtrack, BECAUSE of Pam Grier, walking away, then driving that car, "Up on 110th Street" blasting! OH that ending, Pam's face; she owns the movie. Tarantino really was at his best here and so was she. Heck, the entire cast (and crew, and all who worked on this movie) were excellent. Pam Grier deserves all honors for her work in the title role. Quentin Tarantino deserves his props for writing the role, having the vision to do so, and for all of this, too. It is beyond entertainment; the movie Jackie Brown is way beyond just some show you put on the TV. I liked Bridget Fonda, as an actor, too; she was also fantastic. Everyone was good in this movie. Samuel L Jackson was so slick. Superb screenplay,; perfect 1997 time capsule, with all the actors at their best. PAM Grier though! Her look on her drive away from the drama was so satisfying to me, who'd found 1991's Thelma and Louise drive away to be not as pleasing for so many years, until I got to groove to Jackie Brown's determination and freedom as she made her epic escape. It was like, daaaaamn.

[@foodank_atr817]

"You're gonna be okaaay..." Quentin chuckled at that...

[@greensombrero3641]

It's a beautiful film - one of the greatest ever made. The love story was so real it was unreal.

[@johnsargent3435]

She's absolutely gorgeous

[@michaelvitiello9960]

Great movie. Great cast Great director

[@Toracube]

Having never heard an interview of hers I imagined her a completely different person… but now I see, apart from her being stunning, she was articulate, charming, funny…one hell of a gal.

[@nt6825]

Love Pam!

[@TheUuhhh]

Didn’t know of Pam before Jackie brown. Her performance was perfect for the role.

[@IMadeMyYoutubeNameAge17]

You can tell the interviewer is gushing over Pam

[@mr1597]

My fave Tarantino film. Very underrated. Some of his best characters.

[@lf1496]

Now that's a beautiful woman. Goddess.

[@dannymcguire3623]

Gorgeous

[@eboyjim]

She may be the most interesting person I've ever listened to. Wowza.

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

happy 69th birthday pamela suzette grier !!!

[@angholloway5091]

Bernadette the daughter on good times is definitely easily more beautiful than pam grier!!!

[@toniwilson8212]

Pam has always been a very beautiful lady inside & out & always been a very hard worker ❤🌹🙏

[@felineth56]

What a woman! I'm in love!