{"id":1979479,"date":"2023-07-21T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samuel-l-jackson-claims-deleted-scene-from-a-time-to-kill-cost-him-an-oscar-nom-really-motherfers\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:51:39","slug":"samuel-l-jackson-claims-deleted-scene-from-a-time-to-kill-cost-him-an-oscar-nom-really-motherfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samuel-l-jackson-claims-deleted-scene-from-a-time-to-kill-cost-him-an-oscar-nom-really-motherfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel L. Jackson blames missing scene for Oscar snub."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsamuel-l-jackson-claims-deleted-scene-from-a-time-to-kill-cost-him-an-oscar-nom-really-motherfers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Samuel L. Jackson Claims\u200c Oscar-Worthy Scenes Were Cut from \u200c&#8221;A Time \u2062to Kill&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Samuel\u200d L. Jackson<\/strong><\/a>  claims he would have been an Oscar contender for his work on the 1996 drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cA Time to Kill\u201d<\/strong><\/a>  \u2064if certain scenes hadn\u2019t been cut from \u2063the movie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut also the \u2062things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,\u201d the actor said. \u201c\u2018Really, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leslie-jones-lets-get-the-rest-of-them-motherfers\/\" title=\"Leslie Jones: \u2018Let\u2019s Get The Rest Of Them Motherf***ers\u2019\">motherf***ers<\/a>? You just took that sh** from me?\u2019 My first day working on\u2064 that film, I did a speech in a\u2062 room with an actor and the whole f***ing set was in\u2062 tears when I finished. I was like, \u2018Okay. I\u2019m on the right page.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jackson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/samuel-l-jackson-in-conversation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vulture<\/strong><\/a>  during a July interview that some of the hardest-hitting scenes \u200dfrom the\u2063 film, which was based on\u200b a John Grisham novel by the same name, were ultimately left on\u200b the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-star-wars-criticized-over-black-history-month-tweet-after-minimizing-black-character\/\" title=\"Disney, Star Wars Criticized Over Black History Month Tweet After Minimizing Black Character\">cutting room floor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old\u200d star has appeared\u2063 in highly acclaimed films over the years but has never won an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/oscars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Academy Award<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson has a theory on why the scenes were \u2063deleted, claiming it was\u2064 because they were too good and would\u2062 have elevated the status of\u200d his supporting role.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat sh** is not in the movie!\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I\u2062 know why it\u2019s not. Because it wasn\u2019t\u2063 my movie, and they weren\u2019t trying to make me a star. That was one of the first times that I saw that sh** happen. There \u2064are things that I\u2019ve \u2063done in other movies where I said, \u200d\u2018Wait a minute. Why did you take that moment out of the movie?\u2019 Because the moment, in that movie, it\u2019s bigger than the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690029339199000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1aBZKXZOsvkW3aRCKp8ThD\">CLICK HERE \u200dTO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;A Time to Kill&#8221; and Jackson&#8217;s Powerful Performance<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cA Time to Kill\u201d also\u200c stars Sandra Bullock, Kevin\u200d Spacey, and Matthew McConaughey. Jackson \u2063plays Carl Lee Hailey, a father accused of\u2062 killing \u2064two\u200d white men who abducted, raped, and violently \u2064beat \u2062his 10-year-old daughter. \u2062The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samuel-l-jackson-claims-deleted-scene-from-a-time-to-kill-cost-him-an-oscar-nom-really-motherfers\/\" title=\"Samuel L. Jackson blames missing scene for Oscar snub.\">film received \u200cmixed reviews<\/a> and was a commercial success, bringing\u200d in $152 million at the worldwide box \u2064office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn \u2018A Time to Kill,\u2019 when I kill those guys, I kill them because my \u200cdaughter\u2064 needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again \u2014 \u2062that I \u2062will do anything to protect her. That\u2019s how I played that character throughout,\u201d Jackson\u2062 told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there\u2063 were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out. And it looked like\u200d I \u200ckilled those dudes and then planned every move to make sure \u200dthat \u2063I was going \u2062to get away with it. When I saw it, I was sitting there like, \u2018What the f***?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Samuel L. Jackson believes his performance in the 1996 drama &#8220;A Time to Kill&#8221; would have made him an Oscar contender if crucial scenes hadn&#8217;t been removed. Jackson expressed his disappointment during a July interview with Vulture, highlighting the impact of these powerful moments in the film adaptation of John Grisham&#8217;s novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1979480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}