JACKSON HAILS MAC’S SOUL MEN PERFORMANCE
SAMUEL L. JACKSON is confident fans of late comedian BERNIE MAC will enjoy his appearance in new movie SOUL MEN, describing it as "a fitting last performance".
Jackson - who stars in the movie with Mac and blues legend Isaac Hayes, who also died this summer (08) - refuses to let their passing upset him as he promotes the new film, because he’s convinced Mac is laughing about the situation up in heaven.
The Pulp Fiction star says, "He would have found a way to make a joke about it. He would have been poignant, and then he would have been funny." Mac, who had previously suffered from lung disease sarcoidosis, struggled with bad health during shooting for Soul Men, but refused to let his personal troubles affect his work.
Jackson claims the Ocean’s Eleven star fans will see in the musical film was "the Bernie Mac that they knew and loved; the Bernie Mac that came into their homes every week, who made them pee on themselves when he was doing his act.
It’s a fitting last performance." And the actor feels honoured to have worked alongside Hayes, who died just one day after Mac.
Jackson and Mac play a reunited soul duo, singing hits from Hayes’ label Stax Records - and the Hollywood star admits he was wracked with nerves singing in front of the multiple Grammy winner.
He explains, "To do an Isaac Hayes song in the middle of the film while he’s sitting there watching us (was) a little daunting.
"But then you look at him and you see he’s (nodding his head). So you think ‘All right, we’re killing it.’" Mac, 50, died on 9 August (08) after suffering complications from pneumonia, while Hayes, 65, passed away on 10 August (08). He is thought to have died from a stroke.
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