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

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and Pam Grier, the star of the film "Jackie Brown," adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@max917]

I could listen to Pam Grier speak forever.

[@arriuscalpurniuspiso]

She's so articulate and lovely

[@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👆🏿👆🏾

[@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

[@Daveshotpocket]

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.

[@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

[@coolnamebro]

It's a decent movie. Far from great. De Niro was shockingly miscast. People automatically fawn over his performance because "De Niro", but he was absolutely dreadful in that role.

[@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.

[@bendjinzau2495]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@ghost_rider2809]

Jackie Brown will always be my favourite movie from QT

[@davidh.8798]

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

[@kirbyc9042]

I wish she showed up in more tarantino films 😭

[@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.

[@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

[@alexpurtle7293]

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

[@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!

[@swapblue]

Pam looks so beautiful here and sounds so good…❤

[@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.

[@myfriendisaac]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@lukess.s]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@OrdinaryG33K-SF]

Wow, she's so Beautiful!

[@angeljohnson6665]

Eric Hope bernadette stanis is finer!!!

[@ambo9569]

Aint no other woman like Pam Grier 😍🖤🙌🏼

[@AngelHoll]

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

[@1qwasz12]

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

[@paulstaker8861]

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

[@jamesdooling4139]

This woman is a beauty and a talent.

[@angeljohnson6665]

James Dooling bernadette stanis is finer

[@rareman2577]

Pam is a beautiful woman

[@angholloway5091]

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

[@waynej2608]

Yes, she is!

[@mattcastellanos2178]

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

[@jeffdawson2786]

I forgot how pretty her smile is.

[@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!!!☺️😊🤗🤔

[@monicaburman-sp3mi]

So extremely charming..beautiful Pam.

[@miguelmichel68]

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

[@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.

[@CruderQuotient1]

She's so elegant

[@olgaparush]

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

[@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.

[@CharlesHarpolek4vud]

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

[@johnkearns6048]

Why doesn't this have a Millons of views 😳

[@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

[@luisclaudiodossantos5542]

Two legends of acting and movies

[@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

[@boebender]

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

[@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..

[@Jesus-wi1tt]

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

[@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 ..

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@chessclinic]

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

[@tommynightmare5614]

The lovely and talented.

[@propolispropolis657]

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

[@jumpedintheriverwhatdidise5499]

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

[@zeljkokaradzic7894]

What a charisma.She is amasing.

[@julianyc422]

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

[@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

[@RollOpeo1]

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

[@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...

[@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!

[@michaeltekulsky5665]

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

[@MarcoMalfario]

The Ultimate Cool Chick

[@shamgarsitar1170]

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

[@zhakreayounes5883]

She is gorgeous & talented actor.

[@michaelvitiello9960]

Great movie. Great cast Great director

[@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.

[@toniwilson8212]

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

[@garfieldharrison510]

Fantastic movie. It should be talked about more.

[@EstebanGunn]

Hard not to fall in love with her.

[@mr1597]

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

[@JohnMiller-jb2dw]

She's incredibly hot!

[@Biboche23]

That film is a masterpiece. Just rewatched yesterday for the 4th time after a decade. I only recently maybe because im older and an adult now that the first times I’ve seen it, the emotions in the eyes of the characters are so moving in those key moments. Samuel L Jackson and Robert Forster In that scene towards the end, in the car when they arrive to the office to meet Jackie. That exchange is all in the eyes and in Sam you see the humanity in Ordell when, in a strange way, he’s been the terrorizer, but becomes vulnerable because he knows maybe this might be the end for him but max looks him straight in the eye, empathetic eyes reassuring him that nothing shady is going on. Its like the role’s switch. Even when after Micheal Keaton shoots him in there and the close up on ordell dead, he still had that look of vulnerability and surprise, you almost feel sorry for him, even though he wpuld have had no pb killing them all in there for his money. Ofc last scene Pam grier in the car singing along to across 110th street with tears in her eyes as she leaves max. Iconic ❤

[@zamiadams4343]

My fave Tarantino movie, great interview.

[@nt6825]

Love Pam!

[@zatoichi88]

5:36 Pam also did Bucktown, Drum, Cool Breeze, Hit Man and Friday Foster

[@ElfinMadness]

“Jackie Brown” endeared both Pam Grier and Quentin Tarantino to me - I felt like she brought bravery to a movie that QT wrote without gratuitous violence usually a part of his “spaghetti western” styled films. Pam Grier is also beautiful.

[@TheUuhhh]

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

[@JBomb517]

She's so real

[@maksymbykov]

so lovely...❤😍

[@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.

[@destineetyson7756]

I love you Ms Pam Grier you are my favorite actress of all time ❤️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@CoolMikey81]

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

[@alexlackner1945]

Yeah he shows he can listen, too!

[@rangerfan1122]

Great movie, Amazing beautiful actress PG, Tarantinos best work!

[@meisterwue]

What a wonderful woman.....Pam Grier. This movie is real excellent .....

[@robertjennings397]

Qt she's shinning you, but far from me to know why. The pic you both took was so cool.

[@greensombrero3641]

BRAVO!

[@rdmineer1]

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

[@eboyjim]

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

[@uutooyu]

one of the lady brawlers was marion ross mrs c from happy days if you look closely in the clip of foxy brown in the blue jean suit lol

[@strauqq1]

Great movie

[@greasyflight6609]

A very beautiful and talented women. Loved her in FLIGHT

[@eugenebanks2685]

That wasnt her. The flight attendant wasnt her.

[@youthgonewild]

QT looks at Pam with such adoration.

[@foodank_atr817]

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

[@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.