“He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator.
Sylvester’s got Rocky, Rambo.
I’ve got John McClane.'”
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in ‘The Avengers’; Bruce Willis as John McClane in ‘Die Hard’.Credit:Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/ Everett; 20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
TheSnakes on a Planestar said that Willis enumerated several examples to help clarify his point.
“He said, ‘Arnold [Schwarzenegger]’s got Terminator.Sylvester [Stallone]’s got Rocky, Rambo.
I’ve got John McClane,'” Jackson recalled.
Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis in ‘Die Hard With a Vengeance’.Barry Wetcher/Fox
“I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’
I’ve got this character now.”
(Willis also had an uncredited cameo in 1993’sLoaded Weapon 1, which Jackson headlined.)
Jackson reprised his role as the S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury is far from Jackson’s only franchise character.
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Willis retired from acting in 2022 following his aphasia diagnosis, which laterprogressed into frontotemporal dementiathe next year.
