Samuel L. Jackson - 'The Hateful Eight'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The 67-year-old, whose films have grossed more than any other actor's in history, opens up about reuniting with Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee, Oscars 'bullshit,' his stutter, the n-word, cops and the 'hate' of his golfing buddy Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 21st episode of Awards Chatter,
0:10.6	the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.
0:12.8	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.
0:16.2	We are a little late, but we have a gift of our own for you, which is an hour-long conversation
0:21.5	with one of the greatest actors of our time, Samuel L. Jackson, who
0:26.1	just turned 67 this week, if you can believe it, is out with a new movie which is his
0:30.8	latest collaboration with Quentin Tarantino.
0:33.6	The two have been working together for 22 years.
0:36.3	Jackson played Big Dawn, a character in the 1993 film True Romance, which Tarantino wrote,
0:41.6	and has since starred in six films that Tarantino has directed
0:44.7	most famously perhaps as Jules Winifield in Pulp Fiction but also as Ordel Robbie in
0:49.8	Jackie Brown, Rufus in Kill Bill, the narrator in Inglorious Bastards, Stephen in Jango
0:55.3	Unchained, and now as Major Marquise Warren in The Hatful Eight, which opened in select theaters
0:59.6	on Christmas Day and will go nationwide on New Year's Day.
1:03.0	Over the course of a 40 plus year career Jackson has worked with everyone.
1:06.6	He's made a zillion movies which have collectively made more money than anyone else in history.
1:11.1	And if not all of them are great they're all at least
1:13.2	interesting and worth seeing because he's in them so while we would normally take
1:17.3	this time to recap things that are going on in the world of awards we can cut right
1:21.2	to the interview this week because there's not a lot going on people finally have had a chance to rest at least a little bit and recharge their batteries ahead of the nominations and then phase two of the award season thereafter.
1:32.0	So let's focus on this conversation. and then phase two of the award season thereafter.
1:32.7	So let's focus on this conversation.
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