- Samuel L. Jackson revealed in a new interview that he once gave a pair of newlyweds "10 pounds of bees."
- Per Jackson, the newlyweds in question were former couple Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson.
In a wide-ranging interview with Vulture's Bilge Ebiri published Thursday, Samuel L. Jackson revealed that he once gave "10 pounds of bees" to Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson as a wedding gift.
The "Snakes on a Plane" star spoke about the unique gift after praising his chemistry with Reynolds in the 2017 action film "The Hitman's Bodyguard."
"Ryan is a savvy motherfucker. I knew him from when he and Scarlett Johansson got married," Jackson told Ebiri. "My wedding gift to them was a beehive. Scarlett was always talking about nature. So I had my assistant go out and buy 10 pounds of bees and then I bought them bee suits and the whole thing."
Per Jackson, the couple "kept bees for a while" and "got honey for a couple of years while they were married." But at some point, Reynolds' and Johansson's beekeeping came to an end.
"One day the bees abandoned the hive or they abandoned the queen or some shit," Jackson revealed in the interview.
Reynolds and Johansson were married from 2008 to 2011. Both stars later remarried following their divorce: Johansson tied the knot with French journalist Romain Dauriac in 2014 and had a daughter with him before the marriage ended in 2017, while Reynolds married "Gossip Girl" star Blake Lively in 2011 after they met on the set of "The Green Lantern." Johansson is currently married to "Saturday Night Live" star Colin Jost, with whom she shares a 1-year-old son.Despite the fact that his gifted bees didn't make it through Reynolds and Johansson's marriage, Jackson still had nothing but praise for the "Deadpool" actor and their experience making "The Hitman's Bodyguard."
"I don't think 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' is an A-list movie in anybody's category," Jackson told Ebiri. "But I also know that if it's me and Ryan and we're having a good fucking time, a lot of people are going to watch it and they're going to be like, this is fucking great."