Samuel L Jackson

Hollywood’s favourite badass returns as another hitman – but this one’s in need of some protection himself.

- Lindsay De Freitas

HE SWEARS BY IT “I stuttered really, really, really bad for a long time – to the point that I stopped speaking for almost a year in school,” says the Django Unchained actor, who grew up as an only child and was raised by his factory worker mother, Elizabeth, and his grandparents.

But he found a cure for his problem – saying “motherf**ker”. “It clicked a switch that stopped the d-d-d-d, b-b-b-b,” the 68-year-old actor said in an interview. No wonder he’s such a natural at playing expletive-loving tough guys!