Here’s what happens if you’re not properly prepared as a reporter. You get told that Samuel L Jackson featured in a Superbowl commercial (he did: for Captain America: Winter Soldier). But you don’t watch it and you don’t know what it was for.
You ask Samuel L Jackson about it. Samuel L Jackson has forgotten he’s in a Superbowl commercial. However, he remembers that Laurence Fishburne was in a Superbowl commercial. Both he and Laurence Fishburne often get stupid people mixing them up. In person.
Cue an extremely irritated Samuel L Jackson, although one who makes a lot of good points about racism in Hollywood and the entertainment industries.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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