WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SAMUEL L. JACKSON BUMPED INTO LEGENDARY ACTOR MARLON BRANDO?
According to Samuel L. Jackson, Marlon Brando bumped into him backstage at a Michael Jackson show in 2001.
“Somebody comes up behind me and starts doing the Ezekiel speech [from Pulp Fiction]. People do that to me all the time. ‘Arrgh, Ezekiel, da da da.’ And I turn around, and it’s Marlon Brando. I’m like, ‘Oh my God!’ We end up having this conversation,” says Jackson.
They exchanged numbers, but when Jackson called, it was a Chinese restaurant on the other end. Thankfully, Jackson didn’t immediately hang up and asked for Brando.
The phone was then passed to Mr. Brando and they talked for an hour. When Jackson called back, it was a Chinese laundry…!
Marlon Brando has a bit of history when it comes to being slightly ‘off’ when it comes to phone calls, the internet has a vast collection of recordings of phone calls from Brando, as well as celebrities saying they’ve received phone calls at 3am from him.
So I’m sure Jackson isn’t the only one Brand has put through his strange filtering technique. Although, one does have to question if it would be easier to just have a personal assistant, but I guess that wouldn’t be as funny…
Sources:
1) hollywoodreporter.com/samuel-l-jackson(also includes an interview with Samuel L. Jackson where he talks about it!)
2) vanityfair.com/hollywood/marlon-and-me