Jackson has only been nominated for a single Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor in Pulp Fiction.
“The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson said.
When he saw the final cut, he was shocked about one deleted scene in particular.
Samuel L. Jackson in ‘A Time To Kill’.Christine Loss/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock
“Really, motherf—ers?
You just took that shit from me?”
“I was like,Okay.
I’m on the right page.That s— is not in the movie!
And I know why it’s not.
Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.”
“There are things that I’ve done in other movies where I said, ‘Wait a minute.
Why did you take that moment out of the movie?’
Because the moment, in that movie, it’s bigger than the movie.”
“That’s how I played that character throughout.
When I saw it, I was sitting there like,What the f—?”
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