Sometimes dreams come true. It’s no secret that Complex loves Blaxploitation films, so in honor of the film Black Dynamite, opening today, we wanted to do something special. So through the power of connections, payoffs, and favors we’re not necessarily proud of, we finally got our dream interview with the one and only Salli Richardson. We been crushin’ on you since Posse, ma!
Salli’s not old enough to make our blaxploitation hotties list, but she still merits an honorable mention (if not a Wifey Hall of Fame!). Like her Black Dynamite character Gloria, Salli is straight-up honest and doesn’t beat around the bush (no pause). Peep after the jump to see more pics of this stunner and find out why Salli still loves Kanye, what she uses to cure hangovers, and her adolescent plans to marry Prince…
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We recently posted our countdown of The 50 Best Blaxploitation Movies Of All Time (click here if you missed it), and regardless of what your take on “white hipsters rating Blaxploitation movies” (as one person scoffed on Twitter) is, we can probably come to a consensus on one thing: how incredibly hot are the females in these flicks? Whether playing a gun-toting heroine or a scantily-clad member of The Mack’s pack, these women are purveyors of that good-good, that irresistible ’70s sex appeal that we can’t get enough of. This kind of throwback will never get played out, word to Fabolous’ Goodwill donations. So here are Complex’s picks for 10 hottest women of Blaxploitation movies—keep on stickin’ it to the man, ladies…
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Just to give you a sense of where movies are right now, consider some current box office “hits”: a 3-D food movie, Bruce Willis in a hairpiece, a rehash of an ’80s musical, and two white people with chin dimples falling in love. You know what Hollywood needs right about now? Some BLAXPLOITATION, bitches! Thankfully, the beloved ’70s genre is poised for a comeback thanks to Michael Jai White, whose new movie Black Dynamite blasts its way into theaters in a couple of weeks. To give the kids a refresher, Complex put together an in-depth countdown of the genre’s best flicks, so you can know what’s really going down. Keep it pimpin’, pimpin’!
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Blaxploitation movies are some of our favorites, but unfortunately, the genre doesn’t have much to offer outside of the cult classics created in the ’70s. Luckily for us and the rest of the genre’s followers, there’s a good chance that the multi-decade drought of dope blaxpoitation flicks will come to an end when Black Dynamite hits theaters on October 16. The film, a collaborative effort between writer/star Michael Jai White and writer/director Scott Sanders, appears completely self-aware of the genre’s clichés and general tendencies, which is great for viewers in search of something authentic. We hope this gives the blaxpoitation genre a much-needed boost; it’s definitely been long enough, but we won’t find out for sure until next month.
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