What was Samuel L. Jackson reading?
At the risk of tending toward a gossip columnist, I’m going to do just that.
As previously mentioned many entries ago, we flew from Dallas to Oahu on American Airlines on August 26th. We were lucky to sit first class in seats 4A and 4B. In seat 3C sat none other than Samuel L. Jackson.
So what did the King of Cool do during the eight hour flight?
I won’t go into every detail about his every move, but I did notice that he read much of the time. He first retrieved a script out of a bubble-packed envelope. Sorry, but I wasn’t nosey enough to see the title, so I don’t know whether he was reading a script for evaluation or for learning. My very uninformed opinion is that he may have been evaluating since he retrieved it from the bubble-wrap.
Toward the end of the flight, he read 100 Bullets Vol. 8: The Hard Way which appeared to be like a comic book. You can follow the link to get the full details, but an excerpt of that description reads as:
This Eisner Award–winning series continues its exploration of contemporary American noir through its ingenious gimmick: mysterious Agent Graves offers a gun and 100 untraceable bullets to those who are looking for vengeance. This outing starts in a seedy dive in the French Quarter of New Orleans, a city with dark underbelly to spare.
Doesn’t that just sound perfect for him? So I am wondering if the script and the book are related — as in the script is adapted from the book.
Once again, I’m wildly speculating here because I wasn’t nosey enough to get directly in his face. I was only nosey enough to watch his every move from afar. 