Samuel L. Jackson hated his big Deep Blue Sea speech, which was originally 7 pages

“Deep Blue Sea? They ate me! A fuckin’ shark ate me!” shouts Dave Chappelle as Samuel L. Jackson the Chappelle’s Show’s“Samuel L. Jackson Beer” sketch. Two decades later, Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea, by all means a mediocre shark flick, endures in the minds of many for that exact reason: a fuckin’ shark ate Samuel L. Jackson.
Jackson’s death scene is legitimately shocking. Though Jackson wasn’t a lead in the movie—bonus points if you remember it was headlined by Thomas Jane and Saffron Burrows—he was surely its biggest star. When the movie’s genetically engineered super-sharks go on a rampage and the characters finally come to terms with what they’re dealing with, Jackson settles in for a big, inspirational, Samuel L. Jackson-esque speech. For much of the audience, this is what they had paid to see. Jackson, however, doesn’t get to finish that speech, on account of a giant shark jumping out of the goddamn water and dragging him back in. As a new oral history of the scene with Deep Blue Sea’s VFX team reveals, part of the reason Jackson’s death happened the way it did was simply because Jackson was sick of reading his terrible dialogue.
Originally, according to VFX supervisor Jeff Okun, Jackson’s big speech was seven pages long. “It was seven pages of the worst dialogue you’ve ever heard in your life,” he says.