
Once he saw the final product, the actor said he felt like his character’s perception was changed due to edits that were made.
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In the film, Jackson plays Carl Lee Hailey, a Mississippi man on trial for murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. “Because the moment, in that movie, it’s bigger than the movie.” Why did you take that moment out of the movie?'” he added.

“There are things that I’ve done in other movies where I said, ‘Wait a minute. He also noted that once he noticed the scene was cut from A Time to Kill, it “was one of the first times that I saw that shit happen.” But, apart from being presented with an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement during the 2022 ceremony, the actor has only received one Oscar nomination for his role in 1995’s Pulp Fiction. Throughout his decades-long career, Jackson has starred in more than 150 projects. Oscars: Morocco Picks Asmae El Moudir's 'The Mother Of All Lies' for International Feature Category Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.” ‘ That shit is not in the movie! And I know why it’s not.

“My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the whole fucking set was in tears when I finished. Really, motherfuckers? You just took that shit from me?” he told the outlet. “The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar. In a recent interview with Vulture, the actor said he was shocked to learn that moments he felt were important in the Joel Schumacher-directed film were “taken out” during the “editing process.” Specifically, a scene that he felt could have scored him a trophy. Jackson is sharing his frustrations over a scene cut from 1996’s A Time to Kill that he believes would have put him at the front of the line for Academy Award consideration.
