Not Quite Black Or White: Actors Who’ve Played Race-Bending Roles
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Meghan Williams
Pam Grier In Jackie Brown
In 1997, Quentin Tarantino “reverse race-bent” to make a blaxploitation film out of the novel Rum Punch by changing many of the original white characters to black characters and altering some of the plot. The resulting movie, Jackie Brown, was a critically acclaimed success, and revitalized the career of Pam Grier (the lead).
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