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Samuel L. Jackson Reveals How He and Wife Work Through Marriage Troubles When It Would Be 'Easy to Give Up'

Samuel L. Jackson, who's been married to wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson 44 years, tells AARP The Magazine how they work through issues in their relationship. The actor says it takes 'a lot of tolerance, because everybody’s got flaws.'

The Piano Lesson actor, 75, is the cover star of AARP The Magazine's October/November 2024 issue, speaking in a wide-ranging interview about his career, sobriety and family life. In the conversation, Jackson shares how he and LaTanya, 74, have worked through marital issues when it would otherwise be "easy to give up" on each other. "In the beginning," LaTanya said at the time, "we always said the most revolutionary thing that Black people could do was stay together, raise their children with the nucleus of having a father and a mother, since everybody likes to pretend that that's not the dynamic of the African American family.

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