{"id":302,"date":"2022-03-08T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/samuel-l-jackson-loves-his-job\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:22:20","slug":"samuel-l-jackson-loves-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/entertainment\/302\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel L. Jackson loves his job"},"content":{"rendered":"<section >\n<p>Samuel L. Jackson is also a movie star <em>loves <\/em>his job.  &#8220;Movie sets are my playground. This is my happy place,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; contributor Kelefa Sanneh asked: &#8220;Is acting easy for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; he laughed.  &#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s fun for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has made it <span >more than 150 movies<\/span>, and is one of the most banking stars in Hollywood.  He has worked closely with Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino and is a well-known presence in the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; and Marvel franchises. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think movies should be fun,&#8221; Jackson said.  &#8220;You know, popcorn movies, I like popcorn movies!  Close your mind.  You do not need to understand the plot, you do not need to worry about who did it, you know? <em>He<\/em> he did it!  Now let&#8217;s have fun! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new limited series, &#8220;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&#8221;, he plays a different character: an old man with dementia who regains his memory for a while. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To watch a trailer for &#8220;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&#8221; click on the video player below: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure >\n<div >\n    <iframe ><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption><span ><br \/>\n      <cite>The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray &#8211; Official Trailer |  Apple TV +<\/cite> with<br \/>\n      <cite>Apple TV<\/cite> on YouTube<br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The story resonated with him: &#8220;Will it take a few days of clarity to, you know, say I love you or, you know, let them know how you really feel or hear their story? Would you do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanneh asked, &#8220;Would you like to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course. I would love to. My mom did not know who I was for the last ten years or so. The last time I remember her she really knew who I was, she was watching TV in the room. And for some reason, my face appeared &#8220;I had a movie coming out or something. And he says, &#8216;Sam?&#8217; And that was it. That was the last time he said my name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Elizabeth, died in 2012.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would I give her, you know, to have an hour with me to say, &#8216;I&#8217;m really proud of what you did&#8217;?  Or to say to her, &#8220;What you did, you know, that you sacrificed and gave and pushed me and brought me and brought me to this place.&#8221;  You know;  To thank her and to love her &#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure ><span ><\/span><figcaption ><span >Oscar nominee actor Samuel L. Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span ><\/p>\n<p>            CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Samuel Leroy Jackson grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his mom, a factory worker.  They spent Saturdays together at a local movie theater: &#8220;They did these series, you know, like Gene Otri and Roy Rogers and others. or anything else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He admired actors Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.  But he did not want to <em>is<\/em> their.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to be Errol Flynn if I was to be someone,&#8221; he laughed.  &#8220;I wanted to be up there swords fighting and crouching on the screen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanneh asked: &#8220;Do you think what it would mean for a child like you who grows up to see a black superhero like him on screen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was something I could never have imagined,&#8221; Jackson said.  &#8220;But I would be in there, jumping out of bed, through my house or yard. So, I was a hero my whole life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure ><span ><\/span><figcaption ><span >Actor Samuel L. Jackson, right, with &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; cast Kelefa Sanneh. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span ><\/p>\n<p>            CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he was offered the role of Nick Fury in the Marvel movies, it was a big commitment: &#8220;And then I end up in the Marvel world. How crazy it is when someone tells you when they bring you, &#8216;Look, we want to give you a nine-picture deal.&#8217; .  And you say, &#8220;How long do I have to stay alive to make nine movies?&#8221;  &#8220;You know, I did not know they would make nine films in two and a half years!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson says that while acting is easy, Hollywood work can still be difficult.  His wife of 40 years, Tony nominee actress LaTanya Richardson, is also his co-producer.   <\/p>\n<p>Sanneh asked them, &#8220;Have you become one of the biggest movie stars on the planet? I was hoping you would have some juice to be able to make something if you wanted to make it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People say they want to do business with you, but they want to do business with you <em>they<\/em> &#8220;I want to do business with you,&#8221; Jackson said.  &#8220;It simply came to our notice then.  I mean, I wish the &#8220;All-Black Network&#8221; had as much money as, you know, Netflix flies.  And until they do, you have to go hand in hand with these other people who have it. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It took over a decade for Jackson and Richardson to make their final work.  &#8220;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&#8221; premieres this week on Apple TV. <\/p>\n<p>Sanneh asked, &#8220;What was it that made you so insistent on wanting to make this thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richardson replied, &#8220;Especially if you are a Boomer, we have to deal with seemingly many issues related to dementia. Plus, it was just a good story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bestselling author Walter Mosley wrote the book and screenplay.  He told Sanneh, &#8220;Listen, if you&#8217;re black and you write books, whatever book you write, no one has ever written before. Black detective? Black cowboy? Black singer?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mosley has published more than 50 books, including &#8220;Devil in a Blue Dress,&#8221; which was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Don Chandl.   <\/p>\n<p>As Ptolemy Gray, Jackson plays a 91-year-old.  Mosley said, &#8220;No one really focused on a black person with dementia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sanneh asked Jackson, &#8220;Did that make you think about aging?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I keep thinking about it,&#8221; he replied.  &#8220;I&#8217;m watching myself on screen, I say, &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re not running like you used to, dude!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But no one, at any age, can deliver lines like Samuel L. Jackson, like in this classic &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; scene:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is this passage I have memorized, Ezekiel 25:17. The path of righteousness is surrounded on all sides by the inequalities of the selfish and the tyranny of the wicked. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds them. weak through the valley of darkness, for he is the guardian of his brother and the scout of lost children, and I will strike upon you with great vengeance and wrath those who seek to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know that my name is the LORD, when I shall avenge you.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure >\n<div >\n    <iframe ><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption><span ><br \/>\n      <cite>Ezekiel 25:17 &#8211; Pulp Fiction (3\/12) \u039a\u039b\u0399\u03a0 \u03a4\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 (1994) HD<\/cite> with<br \/>\n      <cite>Movie clips<\/cite> on YouTube<br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sanneh asked: &#8220;Did you know that this talk would be as emblematic as it was?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me put it this way: when I gave this speech at the audition, then they knew how the film would end,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Many moviegoers believed that his character, the performer Jules Winnfield, was simply reciting the Old Testament.  &#8220;You taught a generation of spectators to quote the Bible wrong!&#8221;  Sanneh laughed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, a lot of people thought for a long time that it was a true Bible verse,&#8221; Jackson laughed.  &#8220;Most of them are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in <span >&#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;,<\/span> although he did not win.  Surprisingly, this remains his <em>only<\/em> Oscar nomination.  This month, <span >will receive an honorary Oscar<\/span>about 40 years after his first role in cinema. <\/p>\n<p>Jackson said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here long enough and, you know, someone decided, &#8216;Sure, yes, he&#8217;s done a lot of things.  Yes, let&#8217;s give him one for all those movies he didn&#8217;t get.  &#8220;Let&#8217;s give it to him now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does that mean anything to you?&#8221;  Sanneh asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can not ignore discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But for a guy who went to the movies every Saturday, being on screen is his own reward: &#8220;The time I went to see &#8216;Shaft&#8217; and all that stuff, you know, these were our heroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were talking to your newer version, that would probably be the most impressive thing for him, right? So, will you be Shaft one day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truth.  Because I used to sit in the movies and wonder, you know, <em>Dude, how do you do all this cool stuff?<\/em> You know?  And suddenly, you know, it happens! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>    <br \/>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray&#8221; premieres without Apple + TV on March 11<\/li>\n<li>Follow Samuel L. Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuelljackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/li>\n<li>waltermosley.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>    <br \/>Story production by Mary Raffalli.  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