Which Tarantino film features the radio DJ character Jungle Julia?

The Tarantino film featuring the radio DJ character Jungle Julia is Death Proof.

Jungle Julia Lucai is an Austin radio personality played by Sydney Tamiia Poitier. She spends the film’s opening section with friends Arlene and Shanna, moving through bars and making plans for a birthday outing. Her radio persona and local popularity help establish the social world that Stuntman Mike observes before attacking the women.

Jungle Julia is not the film’s killer or its central protagonist; that role belongs to Kurt Russell’s Stuntman Mike, a former stuntman who uses a reinforced car to stalk women. Julia’s presence is important because the first group of friends becomes Mike’s initial target, setting up the film’s grim first half.

Death Proof was released in 2007 as Quentin Tarantino’s half of the Grindhouse double feature, paired with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. The film deliberately imitates 1970s exploitation cinema, including damaged-film effects, abrupt editing, extended dialogue, and practical car stunts. A common mix-up is confusing Jungle Julia with Arlene, the friend who offers the famous lap dance.