Samuel L Jackson on shark thriller Deep Blue Sea: ‘I’ve had many deaths – but everyone remembers this one’

‘I had no idea I’d get so wet. I was in water for a month. It was kind of wild. For the storm scenes, they were dumping it down on us from towers. There were big-ass waves flying everywhere’

I’d always wanted to be killed in a movie by something big that was chasing me. I missed out on my death scene in Jurassic Park because a hurricane destroyed the set in Hawaii, so I never got to go down and get eaten by a velociraptor. When Renny Harlin told me he was making a horror movie with killer sharks, and that I was going to be the first person to die, I said: “Great!” It was a good idea – once he’d killed me, it meant any character’s life was up for grabs.

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