Samuel L. Jackson Says ‘Community’ of Actors Supported His Early Career

Samuel L. Jackson says he was part of a “community” of actors who supported each other in his early career.

The 72-year-old actor recalled his friendship with Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes and other actors during Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

“We were all together. That was a huge community of us, you know. It wasn’t just Denzel and Wesley,” Jackson said.

“We all succeeded at a different pace,” he added. “It’s like Denzel, you know, left and did St. Elsewhere, and then he became a movie star. And then Wesley left and became this huge big action star for a while with [Sylvester] Stallone and all these other guys. And then the rest of us were toiling in New York doing theater, and then all of a sudden I did Jungle Fever and I entered Hollywood.”

Jackson said other actors, such as Giancarlo Esposito