Samuel L. Jackson says deleted scene from 1996 movie would have received him an Oscar: ‘What the f–okay?’

Samuel L. Jackson claims he would have been an Oscar winner by now if one particular scene had not been minimize out from the 1996 movie, “A Time to Kill.”

The Hollywood star, 73, might need one of the embellished filmographies on the market — however he has by no means received an Academy Award for any of his performances.

Talking to Vulture, Jackson stated some tear-jerking scenes that have been finally minimize from the film “saved [him] from getting an Oscar.”

“But additionally the issues they took out saved me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson stated. “‘Actually, motherf–kers? You simply took that s–t from me?’ My first day engaged on that movie, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the entire f–king set was in tears after I completed. I used to be like, ‘Okay. I’m on the suitable web page.’”

“That s–t shouldn’t be within the film!” he continued. “And I do know why it’s not. As a result of it wasn’t my film, they usually weren’t attempting to make me a star. That was one of many first occasions that I noticed that s–t occur. There are issues that I’ve accomplished in different films the place I stated, ‘Wait a minute. Why did you are taking that second out of the film?’ As a result of the second, in that film, it’s greater than the film.”

Within the movie, which additionally starred Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey and Matthew McConaughey, Jackson performs a person who’s on trial for killing two white males who kidnapped and raped his 10-year-old daughter.

Jackson, who finally acquired an honorary Academy Award in 2021, elaborated additional on the adjustments that execs made to the movie.

“In ‘A Time to Kill,’ after I kill these guys, I kill them as a result of my daughter must know that these guys usually are not on the planet anymore and they’ll by no means harm her once more — that I’ll do something to guard her. That’s how I performed that character all through.

“And there have been particular issues we shot, issues I did to be sure that she understood that, however within the modifying course of, they received taken out. And it seemed like I killed these dudes after which deliberate each transfer to be sure that I used to be going to get away with it. After I noticed it, I used to be sitting there like, ‘What the f–okay?’”

Elsewhere within the interview, Jackson stated he’s comfortable to be buddies once more with frequent collaborator Spike Lee following a longtime feud.

The Marvel actor started feuding with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, 66, again in 1992 after they’d a struggle over Jackson’s wage for the epic “Malcolm X.”