Samuel L. Jackson Shares The Honest Advice Bruce Willis Gave Him About Movies

Jackson said it eventually occurred to him, “Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said.”

Samuel L. Jackson is reminiscing about some lucrative movie advice Bruce Willis gave him that ended up paying off ― big time.

The two first collaborated on the third “Die Hard” movie, 1995’s “Die Hard With a Vengeance.”

“He told me, ‘Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody loves,” Jackson revealed in a Vanity Fair piece on Wednesday, published to mark Willis’ 70th birthday.

“He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator. Sylvester’s got Rocky and Rambo. I’ve got John McClane.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay,’” Jackson shared.

“And it didn’t occur to me until I got that Nick Fury role — and I had a nine-picture deal to be Nick Fury — that, ‘Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said,” Jackson said of his lucrative Marvel movie role. “I’ve got this character now.’”