![]() ![]() She and Denzel Washington are really close. Was this a project she’d been thinking about for a while? She had seen the original production in which you starred. I was more or less a moderator, which was fine. I didn’t have the responsibility of being the engine that runs the play just being a supporting character. First of all, my wife, LaTanya, was directing it. What was it like to return to this play as Boy Willie’s uncle?ĭifferent. You were in the original Yale Rep production back in 1987, playing Boy Willie. I saw you in The Piano Lesson in October. What comes through from watching him, and talking to him, is his profound love and respect for the craft of acting. In many ways, he hasn’t really stopped, even as the industry has gone all-in on the kinds of blockbusters he regularly stars in. He was raised in segregated Chattanooga, Tennessee, and started in the business alternating between serious work and pure entertainment. The breadth of Jackson’s screen and stage roles remains astonishing. And to hear him talk about Secret Invasion, the new Disney+ Marvel series that follows former Avengers honcho Nick Fury (whom he has been playing since 2008’s Iron Man), it’s clear he has thought long and hard about how to ground the character in something resembling reality, no matter how fantastical the story. The 74-year-old actor, probably the most bankable movie star of our time, is a major part of multiple franchises: the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars universe, the MonsterVerse, the Shaft-verse, the Kingsman-verse, the Unbreakable-verse, the Tarantino-verse. Jackson’s authoritative, impassioned delivery. But none of these quotes would have become part of our pop-culture lexicon if it weren’t for Samuel L. One of the ways that the industry encourages commercial success and materiality is by having award ceremonies which honour those who have achieved material success rather than people who have told the truth or have done anything to pass information to people or inspire people or just be truthful about anything.Think about some of these iconic movie lines: “I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” “What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!” “And that’s the truth, Ruth.” “Yes, they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell!” “Hold on to your butts.” “And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” The words are the work of writers. A lot of artists are responsible for encouraging the belief among people that material success will make them happy. I believe very much that the music industry as a whole operates and is concerned mainly with material success. On why she refused to attend the Grammys in 1991: If I fall in love with someone, I wouldn’t give a shit if they were a man or a woman. I don’t believe in labels of any kind, put it that way. They could be green, white and orange, they could be whatever the opposite of gay or straight is. Here’s the thing: I think if you fall in love with someone, you fall in love with someone and I don’t think it would matter what they were. We should not mock those who are brave enough to show their wounds. We need to be compassionate and gentle toward those of our brothers and sisters who have been hurt and are wounded and fragile, while also strong and alive. I don't think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? But there is something out there. I definitely think there is a presence which responds to the human voice. I don't like the word god, I think it's off-putting. Sinéad O'Connor ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II in 1992. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother. My intention had always been to destroy my mother’s photo of the pope. On why she ripped up the picture of the Pope: Singing War by Bob Marley on Saturday Night Live as she ripped a photo of Pope John Paul II in 1992:Īnd we know we shall win/As we are confident in the victory/Of good over evil So I went straight around to the barber and shaved the rest of my hair off. But they wanted me to grow my hair really long and wear mini skirts and all that kind of stuff because they reckoned I would look much prettier. ![]() You would be better to have a bag over your head really. In some ways, you had to protect yourself straight off. Not in a manner that they would cross a line if you said no but they would certainly try their very best. I got into the record business at a time when record executives were a little frisky, let's put it that way. On being a young woman entering the music scene in the 90s when the industry was still dominated by men: It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. Here we look at just some of the iconic Irish woman's quotes and lyrics over the years. ![]()
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