'What am I going to do?' PamGrier looks back on turning down a role in Octopussy.
But she wasn't interested in playing eye candy or a damsel in distress. "My agents had me meet with the Broccoli family, and I'm going, 'I'm not available,'" Grier tells EW. "They looked at me and said, 'Well, why are you here?' I go, 'I don't know. My agent told me to come meet.' But I just wanted to do really in-depth character pieces that weren't predictable. I turned down everything.
Pam Grier poses for a photo on December 8, 1980 in Los Angeles, California., OCTOPUSSY, Roger Moore,, 1983Grier did, in fact, pass on a lot of projects to pursue work on the stage and hone her craft. But she wasn't the least bit intrigued by the idea of playing a Bond girl. "I just felt to be a Bond girl would be: What am I going to do?" she explains. "Am I going to help rescue him? Is he rescuing me? A Bond girl is an an afterthought, a CliffsNote, perhaps. I asked, 'Am I challenging Bond? Am I out to kill him? Will I kill him before he kills me?' They hadn't thought of that. I gave them other ideas, which were much more profound and interesting than what they were doing.
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