The copy of the play that I read listed in its front matter the cast of the 1982 opening production in New York, which featured not only Denzel Washington but also Samuel L. Jackson. That seems like a pretty amazing coincidence to me.
I don't see why--most US actors live and work in either LA or New York. Samuel L. Jackson was a longtime stage and independent-film actor in New York before he became a Hollywood star (he was Mr. Senor Love Daddy, the deejay in Do The Right Thing, for instance).
If you go to Broadway and off-Broadway theater a lot, you are seeing a lot of the people who are eventually going to become movie stars. Washington's big break came more than a decade before Jackson's, but it does seem like Jackson is catching up.
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Date: 2009-05-14 07:16 pm (UTC)I don't see why--most US actors live and work in either LA or New York. Samuel L. Jackson was a longtime stage and independent-film actor in New York before he became a Hollywood star (he was Mr. Senor Love Daddy, the deejay in Do The Right Thing, for instance).
If you go to Broadway and off-Broadway theater a lot, you are seeing a lot of the people who are eventually going to become movie stars. Washington's big break came more than a decade before Jackson's, but it does seem like Jackson is catching up.