Samuel L. Jackson says that a deleted scene from A Time To Kill lost him an Oscar.Jackson appeared as Carl Lee Hailey in the 1996 film, and discussed a scene that didn’t make the final cut in a new interview.Speaking to Vulture, Jackson discussed his disappointment that one particular scene that he was proud of didn’t make the cut, and that he thought it would have won him an Academy Award.“The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson said, adding: “‘Really, motherfuckers?
You just took that shit from me?’He added: “My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor, and the whole fucking set was in tears when I finished.“I was like, ‘Okay.
I’m on the right page.’ That shit is not in the movie! And I know why it’s not. Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.“That was one of the first times that I saw that shit happen.
There are things that I’ve done in other movies where I said, ‘Wait a minute. Why did you take that moment out of the movie?’ Because the moment in that movie, it’s bigger than the movie.”Of the consequence of the scene being cut, Jackson added: “I lost all the time.
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