Incredibles 2 Interview with Samuel L. Jackson | Frozone Tells All

Interview with Samuel L. Jackson

While in LA for the #Incredibles2Event, we attended a press junket that included one of my favorite actors of all time Samuel L. Jackson. Samuel L. Jackson voices the character Frozone in the Incredibles 2 Film, although Samuel L. Jackson is no stranger to being amongst superheroes, his take on his animated superhero self is one for the books.

14 years in the making we find the Incredibles story picking up only moments after the previous film had ended. Frozone is back to save the day and team up to bring back superheroes and make them legal again.

Frozone Tells All

I had an amazing time interviewing Samuel L. Jackson. I was a little nervous about interviewing him since I heard his interviews were exhilarating, to say the least, but I’m more than grateful to have had the opportunity to attend the junket.

If you could be a different character from Incredibles, which one would you be?

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

If you could freeze any moment in time, what era or time would you freeze?

In the early seventies, I was in New York seventy-six Halloween, when we got to New York City we started this marvelous journey we were ready to conquer the world and be the best actors on the planet.

And my wife and I thought we were going to be Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.  But it was a vibrant time in New York, there were so many of us there. And it was a great time for work, and comradeship, and all the people that we met, Morgan, Alfre, Denzel, Phish, and Wesley, and everybody was there working.

And we all worked together, we ate together, we went to auditions together, we went to the same unemployment office when we weren’t working yeah but, you know, vibrant times and learning times.

Which, you know, cemented some really great friendships and just the challenge of being on stage with those people and wanting to be better, wanting to be good, and making all those things happen. That kind of makes us who we are on screen, for everybody.

Because we had all that discipline and all that, you know, working together and learning how to be an ensemble and not just outshine everybody who’s around you. Sometimes you can’t help it, because the other people aren’t so good, but being there and being in that time, would be great.

What advice would you give to young actors just starting out?

Just starting out, oh wow, do as much theater as you can do. You know, fame is a drug that these people, young people now have, because it seems so accessible. If you do enough, you know, you do enough online or you get enough likes or people get enough eyes on you, you become famous for just no reason, or for reasons that aren’t worth talking about.

But if you’re serious about it go to New York. Challenge yourself. On stage or off Broadway on Broadway, work with as many different kinds of actors and directors as you can, learn the craft. Upstage downstage, stage right stage left, being dominant, being submissive on stage.

Samuel L. Jackson Talks about Learning Through Experiences

There’s a wealth of information to be gained from working in front of real people every night and getting that applause or getting that (Makes an unamused face) because you learn from that. And there’s no real way to know you can do it until you hear people say it or you’re in a theater.

And you feel the energy of the audience when you’re doing something. When you make them said or you hear them, awe, then you make them happy, they laugh they applaud they cheer they sigh they do whatever.

When you feel the energy of people, then you know okay, this works, that works, that doesn’t work, this works. So that when you get to this place, or on a screen somewhere, you don’t have to question what you do, it feels right, you know, it works.

Samuel talks about what it’s like to always get to play the best characters.

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.

 You always get the best lines?

Well, people like selling t-shirts, they know they’re giving me I say the t-shirt lines, yeah.

Samuel Talks about his “French” On and Off Screen

That’s pretty much who I am, well that’s one of the things. I have talked like that my whole life, basically. But I stuttered really badly when I was a kid. And one of the mechanisms to stop it was “motherf*cker”, I could say what I had to say. So that worked and it just kind of flows over into the rest of my life.

INCREDIBLES 2

In INCREDIBLES 2, Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, while Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) navigates the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell), Dash (voice of Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack—whose superpowers are about to be discovered.

Their mission is derailed, however, when a new villain emerges with a brilliant and dangerous plot that threatens everything. But the Parrs don’t shy away from a challenge, especially with Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) by their side. That’s what makes this family so Incredible.

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INCREDIBLES 2 opens in theatres everywhere on June 15th!