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Samuel L. Jackson Trivia
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- Was an admitted drug user until he completed drug rehab two weeks before playing a drug addict in Jungle Fever (1991).
- Avid golfer
- One of the late bloomers of Hollywood, he was already 46 years old when Pulp Fiction premiered and has acted in an average of 3-4 films a year since.
- His characters often feature the color purple: Mr. Glass wore purple clothing in Unbreakable (2000); Jackson chose to have Doyle Gipson wear a purple hat in Changing Lanes (2002); and Mace Windu, upon request by Jackson to George Lucas, wielded a purple light saber in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002).
- Briefly suspended in 1969 from Morehouse College after taking hostage several members of the board of trustees, including the father of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, during a protest of the failure of the university to have black trustees or a black studies program.
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