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Samuel L. Jackson Didn’t Understand Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Until Dress Rehearsal

Samuel L. Jackson says he didn't know what Kendrick Lamar's halftime show was about until the dress rehearsal.

The veteran actor and civil rights activist stopped by the Mad Sad Bad podcast and talked about his turn as Uncle Sam during the Super Bowl earlier this year, telling host Paloma Faith that it wasn’t until dress rehearsal that he started to put two and two together. Lamar’s performance took on a political tone as he and his pgLang team wanted to convey what Black America looks like and used Jackson as sort of a “Greek chorus” to narrate the action on the field, just as he did in Spike Lee ‘s 2015 film Chi-Raq as Dolmedes, something even the Brooklyn filmmaker acknowledged. Jackson has a rich history in America’s civil rights movement, so much so that he was one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ushers during his funeral when he was attending Morehouse and has come to realize that he often finds himself in these kind of important situations.

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