Rules I am immediately adopting for my life
You can’t kill me, I want to win all my fights, and I get the girl at the end of the movie, if I want her. Those are my three Hollywood rules.
-Fred Williamson explains what he does in movies.
In an A.V. Club interview filled with wondrous quotes, former football star and blaxploitation legend Fred Williamson drops wisdom on a variety of topics, from the kinds of sports he enjoys (“I don’t watch sports that have incidental contact. Basketball, baseball… You hit somebody and then you got to apologize for it? No, I never was a fan of incidental contact sports.”) to the difference between his nickname and Hank Aaron’s (“I think they called him “Hammerin’ Hank.” That’s specific to baseball. They didn’t call me “Hammerin’ Hammer.” It was The Hammer.”)
By far the best exchange in this already elevated discourse comes towards the end of the interview, on the topic of his future roles:
AVC: What is Black Kissinger? That’s listed on your IMDB page as your next movie.
FW: Black Kissinger is a film the Jamaicans want to do, but the Jamaicans have been dragging their feet. I’m not sure they want to do the film, and in the meantime I’m putting a project together called Spats.
The best part of this (fantastic) answer is that it completely ignores the mind-melting awesomeness of a film called BLACK KISSINGER.
If I may reiterate: BLACK KISSINGER.
Get your head together, Jamaicans. I want BLACK KISSINGER.
BONUS SPECIAL CHERRY ON TOP OF THE AWESOMENESS SUNDAE: Turns out, I should have described Fred Williamson as “former football star, blaxploitation legend, and TRAINED ARCHITECT”
