Pulp Fiction (1994)

While Tarantino had told Jackson the role of hitman Jules Winnfield was already his, the curse-loving actor was thrown for a loop when he learned he would actually have to audition after Paul Calderon had seriously impressed the director and producers with his audition. "I sort of was angry, pissed, tired," Jackson said of going in to read against Calderon, adding he even stopped to pick up a fast food burger to bring with him during his audition. "He walked in and just started sipping that shake and biting that burger and looking at all of us," producer Richard Gladstein recalled. "I was scared s--tless. I thought that this guy was going to shoot a gun right through my head. His eyes were popping out of his head. And he just stole the part."

This might be another reason Jackson was so damn pissed in his audition: When somebody came to bring him in, they said, "'I love your work, Mr. Fishburne,'" according to Jackson. "It was like a slow burn. He doesn't know who I am? I was kind of like, f--k it. At that point I really didn't care."