Samuel L. Jackson says he should have won an Oscar for his role in Pulp Fiction. Jackson played Jules Winnfield in the 1994 film, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Next he said in an interview with The Times: “I think black people usually win by doing heinous shit on screen. Like Denzel Washington for being a terrible cop in Training Day. All the great stuff he did in great roles like Malcolm X? No – we’ll give it to this motherfucker.”
Pulp Fiction is the only film Jackson has been nominated for an Oscar for. Martin Landau won against Jackson for his role in Ed Wood.
The actor also said he felt he should have been nominated for an Oscar for his role in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. That year, the prize went to fellow actor Jack Palance.
“So maybe I should have won one,” he continued. “But Oscars don’t move the comma on your check — it’s about getting asses in seats, and I did that well.”
#BoycottSpotify: Jackson criticizes Joe Rogan
In the same interview, Jackson also addressed controversial podcaster Joe Rogan’s use of the N-word in several episodes of his Spotify podcast. “He says no one understood the context when he said it,” the ” Pulp Fiction” actor, at which point he rolled his eyes, according to the interviewer.
“But he shouldn’t have said it. It’s not the context, dude – it’s that he was comfortable with it. Say you’re sorry because you want to keep your money, but you had fun and did it because it was fun.”
Spotify was criticized after the streaming service did not want to delete the podcaster’s corona-denying and downplaying content. As a result, several well-known artists, led by musician Neil Young, withdrew their music from Spotify and called for a boycott of Spotify.
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