Samuel L. Jackson Reveals How He and Wife Work Through Marriage Troubles When It Would Be 'Easy to Give Up'

Mar. 15, 2025

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson on Sept. 4, 2024.Photo:John Nacion/Variety via Getty

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Samuel L. Jacksonis giving an inside look at how he and wifeLaTanya Richardson Jacksonmake their marriage thrive.

ThePiano Lessonactor, 75, is the cover star ofAARP The Magazine’s October/November 2024 issue, speaking in awide-ranging interviewabout his career, sobriety and family life.

In the conversation, Jackson shares how he and LaTanya, 74, have worked through marital issues when it would otherwise be “easy to give up” on each other.

It takes “a lot of tolerance, because everybody’s got flaws, and not giving up when it would be easy to give up,” he says.

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“I’ve done s— in my marriage that’s crazy, you know? She has too, in her head or whatever in reality, but you got to go, ‘Is that a breakup offense?’ Or is it just that we need to spend a little time together and get some understanding about it?”

“Or,” theFight Night: The Million Dollar Heiststar continues, “there are certain things that you learn to ignore about people — that she’s learned to ignore about me. And one of the things she had to accept is that I’m going to go to work. I’m going to go to work all the time until, you know, it’s time.”

Jackson and LaTanya, who share daughter Zoe, 42, marked 44 years of marriage in April.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson on April 18, 2024.Kayla Oaddams/FilmMagic

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When the couple starred on the cover of PEOPLE in 2022, they shared how they oncemade a pact to stick together no matter what.

“In order to change that narrative, we made a decision to say, ‘We are going to stay together no matter what. We’ll figure it out,’ " she said.

The Piano Lessonis in select theaters Nov. 8, then on Netflix Nov. 22.

source: people.com