Abernathy Ross is a major character in Quentin Tarantino's 5th film, Death Proof. She is a make-up artist for Lindsay Lohan and is friends with Kim Mathis, Zoë Bell, and Lee Montgomery.
She was portrayed by Rosario Dawson.
Biography[]
Abernathy, Kim, and Lee go to pick Zoë up from the airport, and are stalked by the sinister Stuntman Mike. After eating breakfast at a diner, the four of them go to Jasper's car sale, and Abernathy convinces him to let Zoë, Kim, and herself test drive his 1970 Dodge Challenger, with Lee staying behind as "collateral" so that they are sure to return.
While on the road, Zoë and Kim play "Ship's Mast," with Abernathy spectating in the passenger's seat. Mike, who had been observing the trio through a pair of binoculars, begins to terrorize the group by repeatedly ramming his stunt car into theirs. Eventually, Zoe is flung off the hood of the car to her presumed death, and Mike flees when Kim shoots him in the arm. Believing their friend to be dead, Kim and Abernathy grieve until Zoë reveals herself to have survived the fall without injury. The trio then decide to get their revenge on Stuntman Mike by catching up to him, t-boning his car, and beating him to death. Ross delivers the fatal, and final, blow to Mike's head with an axe-kick.
Fun Quotes[]
- Abernathy: "Oh fuck both of you and your little high five".
- Abernathy: "It's nice to be nice, Kim."
- Abernathy: "And you'll ask "pretty please," bitch, because that's what you do when no one's looking. You ain't that fucking hard."
Trivia[]
- Abernathy is a mother, and complains that her friends always cite this as a reason to exclude her from fun, yet potentially dangerous activities.
- She has enough of a relationship with film director Cecil Evans that she is offended by his having sex with Daryl Hannah's stand-in on her birthday, but she is not sleeping with him and insists that she does not want to be his girlfriend.
- In the uncut version of Death Proof, Abernathy's cell phone ring is Bernard Herrmann's theme from the film Twisted Nerve, which was previously used in Kill Bill: Volume 1.
- She and Lee are both enjoy fashion magazines such as Italian Vogue.