Incredibles 2 Interview with Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone) #Incredibles2Event

Incredibles 2 Interview with Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone)

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I have been a huge fan of Samuel L. Jackson for a long time, more so, in his role as Nick Fury in the Marvel franchise. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to share with you all our Interview with Craig T. Nelson (Mr. Incredible) & Holly Hunter (Elastigirl) and today, we get to share with you our Incredibles 2 Interview with Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone). Before we begin, let me just say that Mr. Jackson is the funniest smart-alec I have ever interviewed and forever he will be one of my favorite interviews.

Have you heard that Samuel L. Jackson has a collection of action figures? Well, it is true and he told us how this hobby got started.

Samuel: “Yeah, you mean other people have them? Well, that started when I did Jurassic Park, they made action figures for everybody but my character. I was kind of like so after that I kind of insisted.”

Disney•Pixar sure had us waiting for a long time, to be exact, fourteen long years before this sequel. So, just like we asked Craig and Holly in our interview, we had to find out how does Samuel L. Jackson feels about an Incredibles sequel?

Samuel: “I’m relieved now. I mean that was a lot of pressure. My feed is always full of ‘when are they going to make The Incredibles 2’, ‘when are they going to make The Incredibles 2?’ Like it was my decision. Now I feel a lot better knowing the pressure has been relieved, they’ve made it, people can be happy.”

Now that Incredibles 2 will be in theaters this Friday, it got us wondering how easy was it to pick up his character from the first one and bring it into this one? Samuel had this to say:

Samuel: “Yeah of course.”

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Although the answer to our last question wasn’t as elaborated as we have hoped to, we had to ask the obvious. Did you know you were going to spend the next decade-plus in superhero world after you did the first movie?

 

Samuel: “Well you know, it’s like I said, people have been asking where, where, where, where, where is it? where is it? where is it? where is it? because according to the way the last one ended, everybody just assumed there was going to be another one. And Brad (Bird, Incredibles Director) went off and started doing real people movies. And I don’t think they wanted to put it in the hands of anybody else. And it’s also one of those things where the first movie was so perfect, and so awesome, that you got to say to yourself…

‘Can we really do something that awesome and just a little bit more awesome the next time so it justifies us doing a sequel?’ And I think they accomplished it. The movie is kind of awesome. And this dude gets to show off (referring to Jack-Jack).”

When we interviewed Craig (Mr. Incredible) and Holly (Elastigirl), Holly mentioned that really you’re just acting and directing with Brad Bird in the room. Which got us wondering, how is that different than other movies?

Samuel: “Oh, different than acting with actors? (Laughing) Well, it’s not stuck in my face, it’s there, but Brad is sitting over there in a corner and he’s reading stuff and actually, Brad turns out to be pretty good. He pretty much tries to imitate everybody’s voice when we’re doing this stuff. You know, he is Edna, he’s the best character in the movie. So you know, it just becomes- I’ve only worked once with Craig in the room and that was in the first movie, the first time we were in the studio together and I think that’s when they decided no we’re not going to put these guys together.

It’s just like doing any other acting job for me. It’s like when I’m in a booth doing a voice over or doing an audiobook or doing a vocal Capital One commercial, get in there and do it just get in there and do it.”

We all know that Disney•Pixar films are pretty magical, but did Samuel feel that Pixar magic when working on Incredibles 2? And how about seeing a Frozone standalone movie? And because we are talking about a superhero film and superheroes, how much can we relate to Frozone? His answers had us laughing through and through.

Samuel: “No. Because in the end, it’s all Disney, it’s all Disney, it’s like okay that’s Marvel, that’s Pixar. So it’s always Disney.”

Samuel: “Oh I always like seeing a movie with myself in it. Anything starring me is a good idea, so yeah.”

Samuel: “Really? I’d be shooting ice, not fire, I’m not hot like that? Oh, I see, I see- oh. Oh, fire is for the Black Panther guy. Old guys get to be cool, not hot. That’s a little ageism, I’m feeling a little Me Too about that.”

I truly wasn’t expecting the answer Samuel gave us to our next question. However, after listing to his answer, the answer is so obvious darlin’! 🙂 So, if you could voice a different character from Incredibles, which one would you be?

Samuel: “Edna. Edna is just the dope-est, she’s just, you know, wise cool dry, unaffected by the world. The world revolves around her.”

Samuel Samuel L. Jackson has been played some of the most iconic characters in movie history that it got us wondering what it’s like to always get to play the best characters and the best lines? And finally, what is his favorite movie.

Samuel: “I wish I knew, Oh, I don’t get to always play the best ones, I just have fun playing the ones that I get.”

Samuel: “Well people like selling t-shirts, they know they’re giving me the t-shirt lines, yeah.”

Samuel: “My favorite? Oh, Long Kiss Goodnight. Yeah, a movie that’s really underrated film. That the studio didn’t quite know what to do with because women weren’t badasses in that time. And they didn’t think men wanted to see women be badasses at that time, so they didn’t know how to market that movie, but it’s since gained a really great cult favorite, because I mean Geena is awesome in that movie, she is so awesome, it was great. But that’s it.”

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Incredibles 2 in theaters everywhere June 15, 2018

Everyone’s favorite family of superheroes is back in “Incredibles 2” – but this time Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell) and Dash (voice of Huck Milner) to navigate the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life. It’s a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack’s emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again—which is easier said than done, even when they’re all Incredible.

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