Brie Larson was destroyed by Trump’s 2016 election victory, broke down on set, Samuel L. Jackson claims in new interview

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interview with Rolling Stone, adding they bonded during the election and Trump’s win broke her.Jackson, who plays Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has paired up with Larson several times, including alongside Larson’s Carol Danvers in “Captain Marvel” and “Kong: Skull Island,” which Jackson said was where the two first bonded because they both had bad experiences on set.“We became great friends during that particular experience because we were having such a hard time,” Jackson noted.Jackson, who was an Usher at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral in 1968, went on to describe what his life was like growing up as a black man and how growing up in the ’50s and ’60s he experienced difficult things but can see the world hasn’t really changed.“The world seems to be in as hard a place as it’s always been.

As a child of the Sixties, watching what happened at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and seeing the police beating those demonstrators — and those were young white kids — I learned there’s a certain kind of thing that the powers that be don’t want us doing.”The actor opened up about his views on the 2020 George Floyd protests and how they resembled a modern version of the Vietnam War uprisings during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Jackson said it was great to see different backgrounds protesting injustices but claimed the “powers” were doing all it could from change occurring.“That part has not changed.

In my opinion, it’s kind of worse. They used to hide it. Now, they don’t hide it anymore,” Jackson said. “When I grew up in segregation, I knew which white people didn’t want to be bothered with me and I knew how they felt about me.