Samuel L. Jackson recently revealed he pushed for using a particular expletive one thats frequently featured throughout his films in the 2006 action thriller Snakes on a Plane .
They were trying to make a PG-13 movie and you can only have, you know, like one fuck or some shit like that, Jackson said in a GQ breakdown of iconic characters over the course of his career.
And I told em, Im like, Look, I gotta say motherfucker in this movie. Its fuckin snackes, motherfuckin snakes all over this plane, he continued.
Jackson plays FBI Agent Neville Flynn in the David R. Ellis-directed movie that also stars actors Julianna Margulies, Kenan Thompson and Sunny Mabrey.
A fan-favorite line from the film is when Jacksons character declares that hes had it with these motherfuckin snakes on this motherfuckin plane.
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However, Jackson said his first push to include the expletive in the movie didnt get a warm reception.
Theyre like, Aw Sam, we just, come on. Ah, no, he told GQ.
The actor said the movie wrapped up shooting and was tested multiple times before he later was called to do a re-shoot presumably to include the line with the profane word.
Cost them a bunch of money to get that motherfucker, Jackson said.
Jackson revealed that the movie otherwise went smoothly for him but he wasnt a fan of its title at the time: Pacific Air Flight 121.
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Im like What is this? Well, you know, we dont want to give it away, the actor recalled.
Im like, Its the fuckin point. Whats wrong with you people? Theres snakes on a plane. If its not Snakes on a Plane, Im not shooting an inch of this fuckin movie, Ill go home right now.
By the next day, Jackson said, there were new seats on set that read Snakes on a Plane.
The actor, in an interview with USA Today in 2006, said the original working title of the film was Snakes on a Plane and that is what captured his attention. So he questioned when he heard the film might go by the more generic title referencing the flight number.
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I said, What are you doing here? Its not Gone with the Wind. Its not On the Waterfront. Its Snakes on a Plane, he said at the time .
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