Samuel L. Jackson explains how he almost dies taking a train from New York City

The classic subway line, “remain free of closing doors, please,” acquired a much more personal meaning for Samuel L. Jackson a day in New York City.

The veteran actor made a trip through the pond to appear in an episode on Tuesday of the podcast “Mad, sad and bad with Paloma Faith”. The two discussed a wide range of themes, including a time when Jackson looked like death directly in the eye.

“They dragged a subway train in New York in 1990,” he revealed calmly. “They dragged the train to.”

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Jackson described a scene that could have risen directly from one of his own films. He established the moment precisely, remembering that he was in the “central door of the last car” in a “long -term train station”.

It was then that the door closed on his foot and the train began to move.

“I am sitting there, thinking how, ‘oh, fuck, I’m going to die’, because I could see the tunnel come and I couldn’t understand anything that I could grab or hold on and get closer to the train so they wouldn’t kill me in the tunnel,” he said.

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Fortunately, the train slowed and finally stopped. Jackson’s foot was free, and his life was saved. Later, Jackson revealed that he took “two years”, and a lawsuit against the New York Traffic system, to discover exactly what saved him. While the frantic passengers struggled to release their foot, Jackson discovered that he was a man with crutches who limp to the emergency cord and took him out, preventing the train from completing his deadly trip.

“Things slow down when you’re looking at death,” Jackson said.