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 Samuel L. Jackson
Interview By: Rebecca Ford Samuel L. Jackson made the 2009 Giunness World Records as the highest grossing actor, whose films have raked in $7.42 billion in his career. It may not have been a goal he set out for, but with 68 films under his belt, ranging from the comedic to the dramatic to the animated, it is easy to see how he did it. Samuel, however, is humble about his accomplishment. “It just means I’ve been fortunate enough to be a couple of films that made a lot of money, most of them called Star Wars,” he says with a laugh. From Star Wars to Pulp Fiction to Black Snake Moan, Sam Jackson has played a wide-range of characters, but somehow always succeeds in bringing them to life in the most memorable of ways. He’s good at playing bad, but also good at playing good, funny and cartoon. “I treat every character with the same amount of seriousness as I treat the next one,” explains Jackson. “They’re all really people so you always try to find an honest and human way to approach a character to give it to an audience so that when they see it, they something of themselves, or see someone that they know.” In his latest film, Lakeview Terrace, Sam Jackson plays Abel, a LAPD officer who lives with his kids, and turns out to be a neighbor from hell when a mixed-race couple moves next door. While Abel is a menacing, dark and threatening character, Samuel feels there is also an explanation for his actions. “It’s a character study of one guy and how he feels. Abel’s opinion of people is totally informed by the fact that he is a street cop and the majority of the people he meets on a day to day basis aren’t the best parts of society so he doesn’t think that much about his fellow man,” explains Mr. Jackson. “He has a very specific way he wants his community to be and he has a very specific idea about how he wants to raise his kids and the influences on his kids. When these two people move in next door they threatened those ideals in a very specific way,” continues Samuel. Samuel says he was trying to find a balance in his character. “I was trying to craft a character that at times when you hear him talk, see him do something, watch him smile you see there is a human being in there that’s trying to do something positive for his kids and sometimes he’s right,” says Samuel. “I wanted to make the audience squirm in a different kind of way.” But Jackson also agrees that Abel does go too far, at times in the film. “I know that there is a point where he crosses the line, or the line gets crossed,” says Samuel. “But there comes time when you cross the line, and you can’t ... |
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