Samuel L. Jackson says scenes cut from ‘A Time to Kill’ cost him an Oscar: ‘Really, mother------?’

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Samuel L. Jackson this week claimed that scenes edited out of his 1996 drama "A Time to Kill" kept him from getting an Academy Award.  "In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore, and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her," the 74-year-old actor told Vulture in an interview published Thursday about his character, Carl Lee Hailey, who was put on trial in the movie for killing two racist men who raped his 10-year-old daughter.

He added, "That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out.

And it looked like I killed those dudes and then planned every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it. When I saw it, I was sitting there like, ‘What the f---?’ Jackson had been asked about movies he’d been in that didn’t turn out the way he’d imagined.  "But also the things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar," he said. "’Really, motherf-----?

You just took that s--- from me?’" The "Secret Invasion" actor said on his first day working on the movie he did a speech with another actor that left the entire room in tears. "I was like, ‘Okay.