The Hateful Eight , is the sixth film done together by screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino and actor Samuel L.Jackson. it will be released on December 25, 2015.
Tim Roth, who starred in Reservoir Dog years ago and also a cast in Hateful Eight, observes that Jackson is Tarantino's leading man. He does think, that it is quite extraordinary for a white man, no matter how talented, to be able to write a variety of roles,for his black leading man.
Quentin even stated that Jackson was actually "one of the greatest actor to ever say my dialogue" , and he only named two. Christoph Waltz being the other.
So, who would have thought that Quentin actually turned the actor down, the first time Jackson auditioned for Reservoir Dogs?
It was the first feature film Tarantino worked on as an unknown screenwriter.
Back then , Jackson 'though a theater veteran, was just getting into the movies. He recalls, how he went to the auditions well prepared,ready to deliver his lines, but since he was paired with two unknown bozos who just went laughing during the take, he didn't get to play the role. Truly a big disappointment on his part.
On hindsight, "My agent and manager tell me that my expectations of everybody else being as prepared as I am is my biggest problem," Jackson relates in an interview.
At the Sundance Film Festival, the following year, Jackson sought out Tarantino, amidst the vast crowd who attended the notorious premier of the Reservoir Dogs. He congratulated him, but when Tarantino asked him how he liked the guy who got his part, Jackson went, "I was like, Really? I think you would have had a better movie with me in it."
Two weeks after that meeting, Jackson found in his hands the script of Pulp Fiction, sent to him by Tarantino as promised during their last meeting. It was the first film they worked on together and the rest is history.
