{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What Makes Samuel L. Jackson One Bad Motherfucker, with Gavin Edwards","description":"It\u2019s hard to imagine a time when Samuel L. Jackson wasn\u2019t the unassailable pinnacle of Hollywood cool, but cool is made, not born. And that\u2019s where Gavin Edwards\u2019 new biography of the actor, Bad Motherfucker, comes in. Edwards charts Jackson\u2019s rise from his southern upbringing to his radicalization at Morehouse College, through his struggles with addiction and, finally, his triumph as the highest-grossing actor of all time. In this episode, we talk to Gavin about the definition of cool, Jackson\u2019s contentious relationship with frequent collaborator Spike Lee, and what Gavin discovered from watching all 140 of Jackson\u2019s films. Read more: Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood by Gavin Edwards Gavin Edwards on Twitter Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt\u2019s Creek by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy Hip-Hop (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano Not All Diamonds and Ros\u00e9: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It by Dave Quinn The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard Storycraft and Wordcraft by Jack Hart Capote\u2019s Women by Laurence Leamer ","author_name":"Pop Literacy","author_url":"http:\/\/popliteracy.com","html":"