Great to have you here.
Thanks for coming.
- Oh, man, my pleasure. - You know.
You look good.
It's funny, because you just kind of wear anything you want,
and it's cool, right? - I don't know.
Can I? - I don't know.
If I wore that, people would be like, "what
are you, Sherlock Holmes?"
Not really. Really?
That's what-- oh, too many buttons?
Do the Kangol people get bummed
out when you start wearing just a variety
of other kinds of hats?
They make these kinds of hats. JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, they did?
Oh, they made that. OK.
No, this is not a Kangol, but they make these.
JIMMY KIMMEL: They do? OK.
Yeah, they have Kangol baseball caps.
They have knit caps.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I didn't know that.
Airplane flap caps.
They got everything. JIMMY KIMMEL: They do?
They make everything.
Why would one need an airplane flap cap?
They make big fedoras.
They make dope fedoras.
Oh, all right.
So they're an all purpose hat maker,
and I've unfairly pigeonholed them.
You did.
Yes, I just want to apologize to the Kangol people.
Are they people?
[APPLAUSE]
Have you ever been to the Kangol factory or anything like that?
I have not, but at one point, there was something going on,
and they had a hat making machine
that was stuck somewhere.
And I got it moved from wherever it was to another city.
How did you get it moved?
Money.
[LAUGHTER]
I helped them, and they moved the hat making machine from one
place to another, and fired it back up,
and started making hats again in this town
where people could work. - Wow.
You saved a town!
No, I didn't save a town.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Let's go with "you saved the town."
It's a better story.
"Sam Jackson saves town."
Saved some jobs.
"Residents cheer as hat making machine arrives."
It was awesome. You should have seen it.
Big parade, everything.
You went to the big premiere last night.
I know that.
I did, yeah.
Is it not--
do you like to watch yourself?
Like, will you sit and watch the whole movie?
There's a lot of actors--
and this is a terrible little secret.
A lot of actors at these movie premiers will show up.
They go to the red carpet, and then they
get to the end of the red carpet and they
head right for the door.
They don't want to watch themselves.
Well, they have a cast dinner somewhere,
because you've seen the movie like 13 times maybe,
some people.
And you go to a cast dinner, and then you show up at the party
afterwards. - Did you do that?
No, I watched the movie.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You watched the movie.
Yeah, right.
Because I'd never seen it with an audience.
I saw it--
I'd only seen it once, and I saw it with my agent, manager,
lawyer, you know, book keepers, all kind of people
that had to cheer for it. JIMMY KIMMEL: Uh-huh.
Right, yeah.
They get, "oh my god, you're amazing!"
So I wanted to see it with an audience.
So I had my daughter and her friends were in my row with me,
and a bunch of others.
You know, all these people there.
So it was kind of awesome.
Yeah, sure.
Awesome to watch.
It's gotta be the best part after all
of this work and all the promotion you have to do,
to sit next to people.
Well, to feel real joy from people around you that are just
sitting there, never seen it, don't
know what the story's about, gasp,
laughing, screaming, crying.
You know, it was awe-- it was nice.
Brie Larson was here last night,
and we spoke about you at length.
And she said-- we did.
We spoke about you, because she said
you're one of her best friends.
Yeah.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Is she one of your best friends?
Of course! JIMMY KIMMEL: OK.
Yeah.
Is she closer to you?
Who's ahead on the best friend list?
Brie or Magic Johnson?
Well, I mean, that's very different.
Well, I see Brie a lot more than I see Irving.
Oh, interesting.
Because she was kind of--
I won't say complaining, maybe "grousing"
would be the word that you had not invited her on those Italy
trips that you and Magic take every summer,
and I also would love to go on one of those trips as well.
As I've mentioned--
As you said, maybe what?
I think 4 or 5,000 times.
7, 8 times.
I say it--
I've been here, what, 9 times?
And you mentioned it--
- 12. - Yes.
Yeah.
And I mention it to Magic every time he's here.
And each time, you guys nod politely,
and then the next thing I know, I'm sitting at home,
I'm looking at Twitter, and there you guys are on the boat,
and guess who's not with you? Me.
But you know what's easy? JIMMY KIMMEL: What?
I can give you the number of the person
that rents those boats.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Uh-huh. - And--
I wanna be on your boat!
I don't wanna be--
it's not about the--
I don't even wanna go on the boat!
We could visit.
We could-- oh, I see.
Because now my wife and I actually do like two
weeks on a boat of our own.
Then we do the last two weeks with Irving and Cookie.
And last year, it was like--
you know, it's like the black yacht club.
Irving and Cookie, me and LaTanya
and Steve and Marjorie Harvey.
Oh, Steve Harvey goes on this.
I'm gonna start bothering him too.
- They have their own boat too. - Yeah.
But all three of these yachts were rolling down the riviera.
We were like damn!
Look at this.
I don't blame you, but I don't know
that I'm gonna be able to afford the yacht,
but what if we were to attach a dinghy--
Excuse me?
- --To the back of the yacht? - Yeah.
And we could have a rope, and I could just be in kind
of a little boat behind you.
And then I'll join you for meals.
Well, we can rent you the tender.
It's a nice-sized little tender.
JIMMY KIMMEL: That's the thing that goes from--
That takes people from port to port.
That's fine. I will be happy.
I will swipe right on that tender in no time.
- Yeah, and the chef is awesome. - The chef is--
I bet he is.
Yeah, the chef is so awesome that when
we have hot dogs or hamburgers, he makes his own buns.
Oh, you guys are eating hot dogs in Italy?
I'm not coming Monday, then.
Some days, you just-- - Really?
You know, you just wanna be reminded.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You wanna be an American.
You're on vacation, and you're having some decadent food.
You know, I mentioned in the monologue that they really--
what they did to your face in this movie is crazy.
I mean--
Process called Lola.
And usually it looks nutty.
It doesn't look right.
But it looks so good.
It really-- I mean, you know.
- What's it usually look like? - You know when they do this.
Bad work.
You know, like Benjamin Button.
It just looks like an alien came down,
and it doesn't look like an old person.
I don't know that I should comment on that.
Well, I'm commenting on it.
All right.
So this is in 1998, in the movie "The Negotiator."
Right, right, Roman.
And then here you are in this movie.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: Danny Roman face.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I mean, yeah, it's perfect.
It's unbelievable.
Is that weird for you to see and for your wife to see?
I don't know about my wife.
I watch my own movies all times, so no.
It's not weird to see something that you
shot like last year and then-- - No, man.
If I'm channel surfing, and there's something old of mine
on that I like, I'll watch it. JIMMY KIMMEL: You will watch it.
So I see that face.
What's the last one you watched on TV on your own?
Die Hard With a Vengeance.
Oh, you did.
And you watched the whole thing?
I watched it from where I caught up
to it till it was over, yeah.
And do you think of things that happened during that time
while you were shooting? - I do.
Does it bring back memories that have
nothing to do with the film? - Oh, totally, yeah.
Yeah?
I had just started playing golf when we were shooting
that movie, and we were shooting at Yankee
Stadium, the Yankee Stadium scene where
I go looking for the clue.
And I took my driver with me, because I wanted to hit a golf
ball out of Yankee Stadium. JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, nice.
From home plate.
And the groundskeepers fell on the ground laughing.
It was like, you hit that driver,
you're gonna kill somebody in an apartment in the Bronx.
[LAUGHTER]
Because I had no real clue that, you know,
home runs go feet, not yards.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Right, yeah.
And you can hit a driver 2 and 1/2 football fields.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Right.
I would have killed somebody in somebody's kitchen.
So you never got the opportunity to hit
a ball out of Yankee Stadium.
I did not, not even with a wedge.
Because I didn't have one with me.
We have to make that dream come true.
What about Dodger Stadium? - That would be awesome.
- Would that be sufficient? - I'll do that.
Yeah, man.
JIMMY KIMMEL: All right.
Yeah, because you're not gonna kill anybody out there.
Really?
If you do, nobody will know.
[LAUGHTER]
Let's put it that way.
Sam Jackson is here.
Captain Marvel is the movie.
Be right back.
Name a detail so bizarre a Skrull
could never fabricate it.
If toast is cut diagonally, I can't eat it.
You didn't need that, did you?
No.
No, I didn't, but I enjoyed it.
OK, your turn.
Prove you're not a Skrull.
Skrulls can't do that.
That's Sam Jackson and Brie Larson
in Captain Marvel, which opens in theaters and IMAX on Friday.
Playing Nick Fury without an eye patch,
that had to be good, right?
I mean, to not have to wear that thing?
Not really. I enjoy the eyepatch.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You like the eyepatch?
It's very charismatic.
You know, it's kind of dope to wear an eyepatch.
Does it change your performance in any way?
It changes the way I learn my lines.
JIMMY KIMMEL: How does it change the way you learn your lines?
Well, something about my memory
process, I visualize pages when I learn stuff.
So the first time I did Captain America,
I hadn't worn the eyepatch to learn anything.
I didn't have that much to learn for Spider-man,
stepping out of the shadows.
So when I put the eyepatch on, I got
ready to do the dialogue with Captain America,
and I could only see half the page.
I was like, "oh, OK, this is problem.
This is problematic."
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yeah.
So I went, told them to give me five minutes.
I went over there and covered one eye, read the page,
read the page, read the page, and went back and it was fine.
It's like you're at the optometrist.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Really?
That's interesting.
It's kind of weird.
But you know, it's interesting playing Nick without that.
It's interesting playing Nick without the knowledge
that Nick Fury has, without the chip on his shoulder,
without the attitude.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yeah.
Kind of young, kind of free, kind of never
met a super being or an extraterrestrial.
Had you ever worked with a cat before in that--
In that capacity.
In that capacity, I guess, yes.
Not that closely.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Did you like working with the cat?
Reggie was cool.
JIMMY KIMMEL: The cat's name was Reggie?
Yeah. He was.
Yeah, Reggie was cool.
That's the cat's real name?
Yeah, there were also three others.
Oh, there were three?
But the other three, each of them
had specific tasks that they were supposed to be good at,
but Reggie was the jack of all trades.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I see.
He could do everything.
And he got kind of used to me snacking him.
You know, they just give you stuff,
and you give them a snack, and you talk gently to them
while they're in their place, and then
you give them another snack.
And the next thing you know, you're like best friends.
Is that the technical term, snacking them?
That's what I was doing.
[LAUGHTER]
That's what I call it.
I mean, it's like cat dope.
But it wouldn't kitten--
it wasn't catnip.
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