Samuel L. Jackson believes a deleted scene from 'A Time To Kill' would have won him an Oscar.
Samuel L. Jackson is convinced that he was robbed of the chance to win an Oscar
The 74-year-old actor has never won an acting Academy Award during his storied movie career but lamented how a powerful scene from Joel Schumacher's 1996 film -in which he plays a man on trial for killing two white men who abducted and raped his 10-year-old daughter – was cut, denying him an opportunity to claim a gong for Best Supporting Actor.
In an interview with Vulture, Samuel said: "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. 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***?'"
Samuel recalled how the cast and crew were moved to tears when he made a speech that did not make it into the movie.
The 'Pulp Fiction' star said: "But also the things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. Really m************? You just took that s*** from me?
"My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the whole f****** set was in tears when I finished. I was like, 'Okay. I'm on the right page.'
"That s*** 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."
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