![]() ![]() The Guinness World Records now considers Jackson “the world’s highest-grossing actor.” Last March, he got an honorary Oscar to that effect. Die Hard with a Vengeance and A Time to Kill followed.Īlso: Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Django Unchained -the blockbusters began adding up. By the time Pulp Fiction came along, Quentin Tarantino wrote role expressly for Jackson, who gave it an iconic, Oscar-nominated read. Soon, other filmmakers were hiring him for Goodfellas, Jurassic Park and True Romance. In 1981, while doing another Pulitzer Prize play-Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play, with Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, Larry Riley and the Negro Ensemble Company-Jackson was seen by Spike Lee, who was impressed enough to put him in School Daze and Do the Right Thing. I was drowning myself in a drug-fueled kind of craziness and ended up in rehab, which started a whole other journey for me.” When it got to Broadway, I was Dutton’s understudy-and devastated that I wasn’t going to make my Broadway debut. “I had the opportunity to create Boy Willie at Yale Rep and got very attached to it-probably a little too much. “I only did it because Charles Dutton was doing Crocodile Dundee ll at the time,” he told a group of theater scribes last week. ![]()
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