Samuel L. Jackson’s contribution to the film industry is indeed commendable. The actor has been a part of various films and has proved his versatility throughout his career. Even after establishing an honorable position in Hollywood, the actor isn’t satisfied.
He firmly believes that he was very capable of achieving an Oscar Award, yet due to some intervention by the filmmaker in his scene, he lost the opportunity to win the title. The actor here was referring to his 1996 crime drama film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher.
Samuel L. Jackson blamed the director of his film for missing out on an Academy Award
Samuel L. Jackson has been a part of many iconic films, and with almost every performance, the actor proved to be an asset to the film industry. But just like many other actors, even though he contributed many years to Hollywood, he never got a chance to take home the Oscar trophy. However, the actor is very confident that he has done many roles that warrant an Oscar.
Although there was always something that came between the actor and the trophy. During an interview, the actor claimed that he was very confident that his role in the 1996 film A Time to Kill could win him the Oscar Trophy, but this time he missed out on that opportunity because of the directors’ excessive intervention.
The 1996 film performed well at the box office and received decent reviews from the critics. Yet the actor wasn’t satisfied by this, as he asserted that when he saw the final cut of the film, he realized that his best scene had been eliminated from the film. That was the particular scene that the actor thought had the potential to win him an Oscar. The actor said,
“The things they took out [of the film’s final cut] kept me from getting an Oscar. Really, motherf******? You just took that sh*t from me?”
The actor further claimed that he wasn’t the only one who was obsessed with that particular scene, as according to the actor, when he finished the scene, “the whole set was in tears” and that’s when he realized that he was going right, but when he got to know that the particular scene never made it to the final cut, he was heartbroken.
Samuel L. Jackson learned a great lesson after losing the Academy Award
Though the actor couldn’t achieve the Oscar Award, he learned a great lesson that day, which further helped him to refrain from such incidents. When Joel Schumacher eradicated Jackson’s scene from the film, it gave a completely different angle to his character. In the film, the actor plays the role of Carl Lee, a man whose daughter is brutally assaulted by two white men, and in the rage of vengeance, Lee kills those men.
The original scene would have landed very vividly, which would have highlighted the condition of a father who is pushed to the edge by the horrifying assault on his daughter and murders just to protect his daughter.
But the scene, which would have come out very aesthetically, was hampered by the alteration made by Schumacher in the scene. The edited scene appears as if Lee is a murderer who “killed white people and connived to get away with it.”
Since then, the actor has sworn to the notion that he would just allow the directors to take just three takes of a scene so that in the future they could not mess up his scene.
Source: The Things
