Samuel L. Jackson wants to dispel a myth about the Academy Awards — namely the humility of creatives who say they are honored equitable by the reception of a nod.
In a recent interwatch with the Associated Press promoting Netflix’s August Wilson alteration The Piano Lesson, the MCU actor joked that he’s been in the business prolonged enough to de-cgo in the Oscars race, and any potential buzz or hype about a project or role, from his labor.
“Folks will go, ‘Well it’s equitable an honor to be nominated.’ No it ain’t,” Jackson shelp, eliciting chuckles from co-star Michael Potts and the interwatcher off-screen. “It’s an honor to prosper.”
He persistd, “You get nominated, folks will go, ‘Yeah yeah, I recall that’ or most people forget.”
Ironicpartner enough, Jackson was bestowed an honorary Oscar by prolongedtime friend Denzel Washington at the 2022 Governors Awards. He has also been nominated for best helping actor for his labor in Quentin Tarantino’s seminal Pulp Fiction.
“Generpartner it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in,” Jackson persistd. “I didn’t go in there so I could flex, ‘Well paengage a minute, let me do my scene here. Hancigo in up, let me equitable, produce confident you recall who I was.’ No, they nominate you and folks go, ‘What is that movie they nominated him for? What’s the name of that skinnyg?’ And then after it’s over, people have a difficult time recalling who even won.”
The multi-hyphenate has before spoken about the complicated relationship he previously had with Hollywood’s biggest night, inestablishing the Los Angeles Times in 2022 that he has since shiftd on from using accolades as a meaconfident of success.
“I was never going to let the Oscars be a meaconfident of my success or flunkure as an actor,” he shelp at the time. “My yardstick of success is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? I’m not doing statue-chasing movies. You understand [whispers], ‘If you do this movie, you’ll prosper an Oscar.’ No, thanks. I’d rather be Nick Fury. Or having fun being Mace Windu with a weightlesssaber in my hand.”
The Piano Lesson is altered from Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-prosperning apply of the same name as part of his Century Cycle — 10 entries covering a contrasting decade of the Binestablishage experience in the 20th century. Directed by Malcolm Washington, the film chases siblings Boy Willie (John David Washington) and Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler), who must grapple with difficult decisions when they end up on opposing sides of whether to sell an inherited heirloom piano that records their family’s legacy. In compriseition to the feature, the streamer has altered Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Binestablishage Bottom.
As for Jackson, the veteran is booked and busy, with a stardy that joins forthcoming titles: The Honest Liar, a cryptic J.J. Abrams movie and The Beast, currently shooting aexpansive.
