"Pam Grier left the producers of James Bond shaken, not stirred.

In the early 1980s, Grier was approached by the Broccoli family to appear as a Bond girl in the next film they were planning, 1983's Octopu**y, starring Roger Moore as 007. Grier had already earned her status as the first female action star for the blaxploitation hits Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974), and Friday Foster (1975).

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."

Grier 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 k*ll him? Will I k*ll him before he k*lls me?' They hadn't thought of that. I gave them other ideas, which were much more profound and interesting than what they were doing."

There have been many iconic Bond girls — from the O.G. Ursula Andress in Dr. No to a villainous Grace Jones in A View to k*ll — but Pam Grier is an entity unto herself. And she knew that better than anyone.

 https://ew.com/movies/pam .. -afterthought/

Never heard of Friday Foster. Gotta check that out

i get where shes coming from mos def

but being a bond girl wouldve been dope to add to her resume...wish it was different times like when Halle was starring next to Pierce

there's no age that i wouldn't want to fu*k her. if i get the chance when she's 90 i'd still have to just on gp

Roger Moore is the goat Bond

AfroBucks88 said Roger Moore is the goat Bond

He's one of the worst ones. I'd even pick lazenby over him. He's campy and goofy as bond

Stacey Dash could have been a bond girl in the 90s.

Would have been the best film she was in.... being that most of her films were trash...