Samuel L. Jackson Gets Heated Recalling Reaction To Cut Scenes In ‘A Time To Kill’: ‘The Things They Took Out Kept Me From Getting An Oscar… Really, Motherf**kers?’

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Samuel L. Jackson is speaking out about another missed opportunity he had at winning an Oscar for one of his early films. Last year, the 74-year-old actor told The Times that he thinks he should have won the 1995 Academy Award for best supporting actor for “Pulp Fiction” instead of Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”).

Jackson believes he was robbed of a second chance at taking home a golden statuette just a few years later for his role in Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill”, which also starred Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock.

In the Joel Schumacher-directed film, adapted from John Grisham’s novel of the same name, Jackson portrayed a man on trial for killing the two men who raped his daughter. READ MORE: Samuel L.

Jackson Defends Brie Larson From Sexist Marvel Fans: ‘She’s Not Going To Let Any Of That Stuff Destroy Her’ In a new interview with Vulture, the actor explains how his cut scenes from the film ultimately affected his onscreen performance. “In ‘A Time to Kill’, when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her,” he explained. “That’s how I played that character throughout.