Samuel L. Jackson says he didn't ask for a 'Pulp Fiction' engraving on his 'Star Wars' lightsaber: 'They did that because they loved me'
- Samuel L. Jackson said he didn't ask for the "BMF" engraving on his "Star Wars" lightsaber.
- The engraving is a reference to the wallet Jackson's character has in "Pulp Fiction."
Samuel L. Jackson said on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that a "Pulp Fiction" reference was engraved on his "Star Wars" lightsaber as a gift.
In 2013, Jackson shared on "The Graham Norton Show" that the prop he used in the movie had a message on it inspired by "Pulp Fiction."
"I have the real one at home that says 'bad motherfucker' right here," he said while holding a toy replica of his character's famous purple lightsaber. In the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie, Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, has a wallet that says "Bad Mother Fucker" on it.
During his Wednesday appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Jackson said he didn't ask for the engraving.
"No, they did that because they loved me," Jackson said. "I didn't ask for it. When the shoot was over, when they presented it to me, it had 'BMF' on the on-off button."
Fallon also showed a picture of the engraving on the show.
Jackson starred in the three "Star Wars" prequels about Darth Vader's origin story. His character, Mace Windu, stood out in the trilogy because he was the first and only Jedi to have a purple lightsaber.
During the interview on "The Graham Norton Show," Jackson said he asked George Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," for his fictional weapon to be purple so that he would be able to find himself in the battle scene in the second prequel movie, "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones."
"I said to George, 'You think maybe I can get a purple lightsaber?'" Jackson said. "He's like, 'Lightsabers are green, or lightsabers are red.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I want a purple one. I'm like the second-baddest Jedi in the universe next to Yoda.' He's like, 'Let me think about it.'"
The "Shaft" actor added: "And when I came back to do reshoots, he said, 'I'm going to show you something. It's already caused a shitstorm online.' And he had the purple lightsaber, and I was like, 'Yeah!'"
While Jackson hasn't been in a "Star Wars" movie since "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" in 2005, there have been rumors that he may return as Windu in a future project.
Last year, Jackson captioned an Instagram post with the hashtag "#maceaintdone," which led some fans to believe he might appear in the "Book of Boba Fett" spin-off series on Disney+.
Jackson's costars from the trilogy Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are making their return in the upcoming Disney+ series "Obi-Wan Kenobi."