WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.670 Samuel L. Jackson is not stoked. 2 00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:06.930 About some edits that were made to a time to kill Jackson told Vulture that he 3 00:00:06.930 --> 00:00:10.200 would've won an Oscar if certain scenes weren't cut from the film. 4 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.310 The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. Jackson said, really? 5 00:00:14.310 --> 00:00:16.380 Motherfuckers, you just took that shit from me. 6 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:19.710 My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor, 7 00:00:19.710 --> 00:00:23.460 and the whole fucking set was in tears. When I finished, I was like, okay, 8 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:27.270 I'm on the right page. That shit is not in the movie. He continued, 9 00:00:27.570 --> 00:00:28.260 and I know why. 10 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:31.770 It's not because it wasn't my movie and they weren't trying to make me a star. 11 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:34.890 That was one of the first times that I saw that shit happen. 12 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.010 There are things that I've done in other movies where I said, wait a minute. 13 00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:42.600 Why did you take that moment out of the movie? Because the moment in that movie, 14 00:00:42.630 --> 00:00:43.740 it's bigger than the movie. 15 00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:47.640 While Jackson eventually won an Oscar back in 2021, 16 00:00:47.670 --> 00:00:51.060 the actor spoke more about his issues with the film in which he played the role 17 00:00:51.060 --> 00:00:52.230 of Carl Lee Haley, 18 00:00:52.260 --> 00:00:55.680 a man on trial for killing two white men who abducted and raped his young 19 00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:56.513 daughter. 20 00:00:56.580 --> 00:00:59.670 I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the 21 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:02.010 planet anymore and they will never hurt her again. 22 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:03.900 That I will do anything to protect her. 23 00:01:04.230 --> 00:01:06.510 That's how I played that character Throughout. 24 00:01:06.690 --> 00:01:08.400 There were specific things we shot, 25 00:01:08.430 --> 00:01:11.970 things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, 26 00:01:11.970 --> 00:01:15.570 they got taken out and it looked like I killed those dudes and then planned 27 00:01:15.570 --> 00:01:18.990 every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it. When I saw it, 28 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:22.560 I was sitting there like, what the fuck? While a time to Kill, 29 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.170 received a lukewarm reception from critics, 30 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.280 nobody can deny Samuel L. Jackson delivered one hell of a performance, 31 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:30.330 as he always does. 32 00:01:30.750 --> 00:01:34.110 Maybe someday we'll all get to see those deleted scenes he's talking about. 33 00:01:34.410 --> 00:01:36.690 That's how I played that character throughout.