Having grown up in the 70’s, did you get to experience a lot of grindhouse movies?
JUNGLE JULIA: I definitely did and mainly the late 70’s horror films and blaxploitation. The stuff I hadn’t seen was mainly kung fu and women in prison films. Those kinds were new to me, so when I got the part I watched those types. I put in Switchblade Sisters immediately even though he didn’t want me to watch specific films, I couldn’t help myself because I need to have a feel for what it is and I knew his film wasn’t going to be a typical slasher film, but really original and different. Quentin screened a movie for us called Macon County Line and before that he showed us an hour and a half worth of all grindhouse trailers. He has original prints of every trailer imaginable! Macon County Line was so interesting because it starts off as one thing and then by the end you’re like, “What the hell, it’s an entirely different kind of movie!” And in a weird way I think that’s the direction Quentin’s movie takes, it starts off as this very 70’s slasher-y, creepy, thriller-y and by the end St
