Samuel L. Jackson is one of our greatest living actors. He may only have a single Oscar nomination in his career, but he’s behind some of the most memorable roles in modern movie history . This makes it more than a little disturbing to learn that we might have been robbed of many of those roles as Jackson reveals he nearly died 35 years ago.

In a recent appearance on the Mad Sad Bad podcast , Jackson relayed a story about getting his foot caught in the door of a subway train, resulting in him getting dragged a significant distance. He says he believed he was going to die that day. He described the situation, saying:

I got dragged by a subway train in New York in 1990. I got dragged by the A train. Fortunately, I was in the middle door of the last car, and it was a long-ass train

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