When Samuel L. Jackson Met Sidney Poitier

They remain good friends to this day.

For the 2016 Vanity Fair “Hollywood Issue,” Samuel L. Jackson has revisited a number of episodes on his way up the ladder to Pulp Fiction standout, beloved superstar and Capital One pitchman.

One of the episodes involves the dean of Black Hollywood. After Jackson moved from New York to L.A., he landed with powerful agent Toni Howard and started attending her parties:

I was walking past the sofa in her living room, and I saw the back of someone’s head.

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