Samuel L Jackson is credited Bruce Willis To provide him with his career advice, which led to his lowest role.
Jackson, 76, is one of the biggest names In Hollywood, he is currently holding a recording for hunger in most films that in the global cashier brood in the global cash register.
What is said, it wasn’t enough later in his career that he had landed a role to help him maintain a constant acting career.
Talking Vanity fair about your friend Willis, with which he starred Pulp Fiction and InextricableJackson discovered the Kaduljske Words he received when two filmed continued in 1995. Years Hard to die with revenge together.
Jackson said Willis said unto him, Arnold [Schwarzenegger]It has a terminator. Sylvester [Stallone]He got Rocky, Rambo. I have John McClan. “
Jackson, Jackson did not have a franchise, was synonymous with – but that was changed when he started playing Nick Fury in Marvel Cinematographic Universe in 2008. year, making short stone at the end Iron Man.
The character has since become one of the most famous figures in MCU, appearing in a dozen films and three TV shows, including 2023. Years Secret Invasion.
“I’m like:” Oh, all right. “And that didn’t happen to me until I got sad nickname – and I had nine-pictures.
Despite his obvious affection by part, Jackson admitted to being careful in the ambitions of the MCU project. “I knew I had nine-pictures,” Jackson told GQ 2024. Years But he said he was privately thinking: “How long do I have to stay alive to make nine movies?”
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However, when he saw how fast Marvel managed to produce movies, he realized that his contract would be completed before, not later.
He added: “It’s not the fastest process in the world [movie making]People don’t do that. I didn’t know they would make nine movies like two and a half years. It’s kind of crazy, like, oh sh–, I use my contracts! But it worked. “
The actor appeared in a number of other franchises, including wars and incrediblebles, but Fury is their finest input role.
In February 2023. year, Willis’s family announced that it was diagnosed Frontomemporal Dementia (FTD). The news occurred for almost a year after they discovered that he would “deviate” from acting after the initial diagnosis of aphasia.