At 76 his movies have grossed billions, but Sam Jackson's real life performance is the gift to the late bloomers club. His was 46 before he tasted success as 9th choice for Tarrantino's Jules Winnifield in Pulp fiction (1994). Who couldn't forget this scene.
He'd previously starred in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), two weeks out of rehab for actual cocaine addiction. There are several memes to characterise his success. They include focusing on oneself and avoid comparing yourself to others. In Ghana, we say the fingers are not the same.
His experience and wisdom from rejection upon rejection was his superpower. So long as he played the numbers game (which by the way I've proved works with a former mentee) something would happen. And that something could be anything that made one grateful.
In my BBC career in the 90s I've had the privilege of interviewing movie stars, such as Lou Gossett Jr and Eartha Kitt and there's a thread similar to Jackson that comes through. You can catch some of the one's digitised from the Black London files on https://lnkd.in/ezKidEdF
Whilst on actors a quick shout to my nephew, his siblings and his mum (my sister). Brett Curtis is understudy to play Sidney Poitier in his West End debut in Retrograde by the amazing Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. I'll do a proper post about this soon.
Thanks to Jose Velazquez, MA my archive producer.
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