“He said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m writing something for you’…then a month or so later I was somewhere else and ‘Pulp Fiction’ showed up in the mail,” Jackson said of Tarantino promising a big part at Sundance, and the filmmaker delivered. Later on in the interview, Jackson talks about “Pulp Fiction” and how Tarantino told him he wrote the iconic role of Jules for him at Sundance during a screening for “Reservoir Dogs.” Jackson wasn’t really sure he believed him, but sure enough, a script appeared on his doorstep soon enough. Interestingly enough, Tarantino has been considering an all-black remake of “Reservoir Dogs,” which might become a stage play instead. Orange convince the crooks he was one of them by acting the part. Jackson alludes to that potential role as Randy Brooks’ Holdaway, a seasoned undercover cop that helps Roth’s Mr. I left that audition like, ‘I know I’m not getting this job, these dudes sucked, who the f*ck was that?’ I had no idea who they were,” Jackson recalled of his disastrous first audition with Tarantino. I was supposed to audition with Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth, but these two guys showed up, and I was like, ‘Who the hell are these guys?’ Plus, they were awful. “The first time I met Quentin was for ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ he was one of the people reading with me, he and Lawrence Bender, the producer. The actor had no idea who they were, but they sure were “awful.” READ MORE: Quentin Tarantino In Talks To Direct Episodes Of ‘Justified’ Revival Well, on The Jess Cagle podcast from Sirius XM, Jackson reveals who those two terrible people he read opposite were: Quentin Tarantino and “Reservoir Dogs” producer Lawrence Bender (lol). On that podcast, he said it was because the people he auditioned opposite were terrible. On the recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Jackson talked about losing a role he auditioned for in “ Reservoir Dogs” to an unknown actor. Jackson has paused talking about various Marvel projects and is now is dishing juicy tidbits about his history working with Tarantino. Jackson goes back to their landmark genre pic “ Pulp Fiction,” as the two have continued to work together for nearly 30 years. Vincent and Jules got themselves into a lot of trouble when Vincent accidentally shot a man in the face in their car, which led them to take the car with Marseullus’ cleaner, Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel), so they wouldn’t be caught.The collaboration between writer/director Quentin Tarantino and cherished actor Samuel L. Jackson), their boss Marsellus Wallace (Wing Rhames), his wife Mia (Uma Thurman), and boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis). The leads of the stories are hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Pulp Fiction follows various interconnected stories in a non-linear style and set in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. One of the most memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction is when Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin in the face while in the car – but why did Jules and Vincent take him in the first place? And was his death really an accident? Quentin Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime film Reservoir Dogs, and while it was a success, his breakthrough came two years later with Pulp Fiction, regarded by many as his masterpiece.
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