Samuel L. Jackson Slams Billionaires Who Don’t ‘Pay Their F***ing Taxes’

July 26, 2023

*Samuel L. Jackson weighs on AI in Hollywood, his activism, and cheapskate billionaires in a new, in-depth interview with Vulture.

“I’m 74. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be around here raising hell or doing what I’m doing,” Jackson told the publication. “But people need to start understanding that the economic gap is crazy. I pay an enormous amount of taxes, and it’s fine because I know I should.”

Jackson added, “But why can’t we get billionaires to pay their f**king taxes? If those motherf*ckers paid their taxes we’d solve a whole bunch of sh*t. And they would still be richer than every motherf*cker walking around them.”

Jackson also spoke about life before fame, when he worked in Los Angeles for the bureau of public assistance.

“I used to go to people’s houses and see if they were still eligible. I wouldn’t have taken anybody’s fucking money. I was still part of the Black Revolution then,” Jackson explained. “All these people that were on welfare, I just went out and sat in their house, smoked reefer with them, and hung out, made sure that all this stuff was in order and made sure they stayed on public assistance.”

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Elsewhere in the interview, Jackson also touched on his work in Joel Schumacher’s 1996 John Grisham adaptation “A Time to Kill.” The veteran actor told Vulture that several scenes were cut from the final version of the film, which cost him an Academy Award.

“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,” Jackson said. “That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out.”

He continued, “When I saw it, I was sitting there like, What the fuck? But also the things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. Really, motherf*ckers? You just took that sh*t from me?”