Pam Grier announces new projects, stresses need for female stunt performers

Legendary actress and icon Pam Grier has a couple of new projects.

The Foxy Brown star recently stopped by “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and revealed that her 1974 classic Blaxploitation film will soon get a makeover into a musical and that her 2010 memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, is being turned into a limited series.

“We’re going to be doing Foxy Brown also as a musical,” Grier revealed while withholding further details before touching on why she opted to do a series based on her memoir instead of a feature film. “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,'” she explained. “So it’ll be seven episodes, shot like a film.”

The 75-year-old actress also discussed the need for more female stunt performers in the industry during the interview with Hudson. For many years, Grier performed her own stunts until injuries forced her to get a stunt double, famed stunt performer J.D. Davis.

“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 and stand up to aggression,” Grier told Hudson. “All of the women have a stunt double, so they’re not injured. You don’t want to get injured for what? A movie? We’re more important. We’ve gotta live past the filmmaking.”

Grier can currently be seen in season two of the Amazon Prime Video series “Them” and in the thriller Cinnamon streaming on Tubi.