Samuel L. Jackson is formally one “bad
motherf – – ker.“
The Marvel actor, 73, was gifted a purple lightsaber from “Star Wars” creator George Lucas after starring as Mace Windu in the Darth Vader prequels. And the colour wasn’t the one distinctive factor about it: the weapon was additionally engraved with the letters “BMF,” or “bad motherf – – ker,” a nod to Jackson’s character, Jules Winnfield, within the 1994 motion flick “Pulp Fiction.”
But throughout an look Wednesday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Jackson revealed that he didn’t request that his current have a reference engraved on it.
“They did that because they loved me — I didn’t ask for it,” Jackson defined to host Fallon.
“When the shoot was over, when they presented it to me, it had ‘BMF’ on the on-off button,” the “Glass” actor stated of his present. When the speak present host requested what these three letters meant, Jackson joked, “Bad, my friend.”
In director Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Jackson’s character has a wallet with the saying “Bad Motherf – – ker” spelled out on it.
Fallon confirmed a photograph of the lightsaber to the viewers, noting: “Now that’s what I’m talking about! That’s love for Samuel L. Jackson right there!”
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“It was!” Jackson laughed.
The “Coach Carter” star had appeared on “The Graham Norton Show” in 2013 when he first revealed that his film prop had the expletive inscribed on it.
“I have the real one at home that says ‘bad motherf – – ker’ right here,” he stated on the time whereas pulling out a reproduction of his character’s violet lightsaber.
“I said to George [Lucas], ‘You think maybe I can get a purple lightsaber?’ ” he stated. “He’s like, ‘lightsabers are green or lightsabers are red.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I want a purple one. I’m just like the second baddest Jedi within the universe subsequent to Yoda.’ He’s like, ‘Let me think about it.’
“And when I came back to do re-shoots, he said, ‘I’m gonna show you something. It’s already caused a s – – t storm online,’ ” Jackson added. “And he had the purple lightsaber and I used to be like, ‘Yeah!’ “
The “Shaft” actor has starred in three movies within the famed area opera franchise, together with “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (1999), “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (2005).
