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Samuel L Jack­son takes our 1990s movie poster quiz

14 Aug 2017

Words by Little White Lies

We test the actor’s knowl­edge of ​’90s movies – with one cru­cial twist…

You may have seen that Samuel L Jackson’s new movie, The Hitman’s Body­guard, pays homage to the 1992 Kevin Costner/​Whitney Hous­ton vehi­cle The Body­guard in the form of a par­o­dy poster.

Inspired by this rather inge­nious piece of mar­ket­ing, we sat down with Jack­son to test his knowl­edge of ​’90s movie posters, show­ing him eight icon­ic posters which we sub­tly mod­i­fied from their orig­i­nal versions…

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