Samuel L. Jackson Quit Plant-Based Diet For Film Role

Samuel L. Jackson Quit Plant-Based Diet For Film Role

Actor Samuel L. Jackson previously admitted that he quit his plant-based diet for a film role. According to Jackson, the makers of 2016’s The Legend of Tarzan planned to fire him if he didn’t gain weight. Jackson was plant-based at the time but stopped in order to bulk up. In the movie, he played a fictionalized version of the lawyer and activist George Washington Williams opposite Alexander Skarsgard as the titular Tarzan. Jackson said that bet…