Samuel L. Jackson talks about Django Unchained and working with Tarantino

During an interview with toronto.com about his movie “The Samaritan”, Jackson also talked about filming Django Unchained, working with Tarantino and his feelings on the script.

When asked about the movie, which is described as controversial by the interviewer Linda Barnard, Jackson replies: “I describe it as a heroic love story. A guy who is a slave and who loses his wife in the midst of all the madness of slavery and tries to find a way to reclaim her. And that’s a love story“.
On shooting, filming the movie is difficult for him at times, Jackson states, and playing a slave on screen poses a unique challenge for him: “I have talked a lot to my grandfather and grandmother, who were one generation removed from slavery, who talked to me about their parents who were slaves, when I was young, so I understand it“.
On his character, he feels that he has a historical obligation on him to give his character as much weight and depth as he can to give people, when they see the film, a certain understanding of how terrible these times were.
Jackson says that he is determined to be historically correct, “so we can tell our story in a way that hasn’t been told before“.
On working with Tarantino, Jackson praises Tarantino on taking “the sting out”, when the crew is having a difficult day on set and he feels that a scene weighs too much on them.
He explains: “I enjoy the film making process so much. He makes it a fun place to be every day. No matter how difficult the subject matter or the scene may be, it’s always a fun place to be. It’s always shot well and we do a lot of things to take the nastiness of what we just did. We play music. We talk. We laugh“.

Read the full interview by Linda Barnard on toronto.com, it’s good!