Bruce Willis Told Samuel L. Jackson to Find a Role ‘You Can Always Go Back To’ After Making Bad Movies That Make No Money: ‘I Got Nick Fury’ Years Later

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1. > “He told me, ‘Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody loves,” Jackson said of the advice Willis gave him on the “Die Hard With a Vengeance” set.

   > “He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator. Sylvester’s got Rocky and Rambo. I’ve got John McClane.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’ And it didn’t occur to me until I got that Nick Fury role—and I had a nine-picture deal to be Nick Fury—that, ‘Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said. I’ve got this character now.’”

2. Weird considering his last two Nick Fury appearances in live action..

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4. Thought that was Bruce Willis with Guinan

5. Of all things Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson related, I’d watch Mr. Glass before Nick Fury.

6. He’s in 3 of the biggest Disney franchises. The MCU. Mace Windu in Star Wars. Frozone in the Pixar-verse. Not to mention the Saw franchise, which he’s a part of and of course The Tarantino-verse.

7. JFC, why do we even need a 70+ year old actor who is one note in anything?

8. If only we had more mace windu movies. I’d pay to see mace windu no matter how old he is.

9. Die Hard 3 needed a real sequel and not what we got. Bruce and Sam had great chemistry.

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