Movie Score Card
December, 1996
She drives a Jaguar now. But with or without wheels, Lela Rochon, 30, is already in moviedom's passing lane. She has a lead in The Chamber, John Grisham's latest thriller, with Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman. She copped the role originally written for a white actress after telling the director it was "totally unrealistic" not to have a major black character in a story set in Mississippi today. "So they put me in these dresses I call funeral clothes--no flash at all...
