Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I guess this week a Hollywood legend, Samuel L. Jackson.

Did you know that Sam Jackson is the man, the actor, whose movies have grossed more at

the box office in total than any other actor in the history of Hollywood?

Something like $15 billion around the world, his movies have made.

A lot of that is owed to the franchise movies he's done, Star Wars Jurassic Park, the Marvel

Cinematic Universe, but also because he's just a damn good actor and he's been in a lot

of good movies.

Some of them big budget like those others of course, classics like Pulp Fiction, which at

the age of 45 for Sam Jackson, this is 25 years ago in 1994, was the big breakthrough.

He'd done some movies of course with Spike Lee before that, but it was Pulp Fiction that

cemented him as a star and by the way about six months later die hard with a vengeance

came out and that launched him as a box office star as well.

Something Bruce Willis told him would happen before it did.

Sam Jackson tells that story as you'll hear in just a bit.

Also a guy who's had, well you know, 45 years old, there's a lot of life before that.

And so he grew up in the segregated South and Chattanooga, Tennessee, came from a broken

home.

His grandparents raised him along with his aunt.

He talks about the impact they had on his life and why he was steered into acting.

His latest project is Shaft.

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