fyi, he had stuttering problem as a kid, stopped speaking for a year because he was laughed at and bullied.
In the movie, Sam did the lisp purposely.
Vaughn explained:
"Sam explained to me that when he was younger, he had a lisp and a stutter, and it really drove him on to want to be famous, to succeed. He said, ‘Look, trust me, if you were a guy, if you’re Steve Jobs and you’ve got everything -- you’ve got money, you’ve got power, you’ve got everything you want -- but you’ve still got this God damn stutter and lisp, and people aren’t 100% taking you seriously, it can take you to that next level of going mad. And I thought that was great, because … he played this character as someone who had slowly lost the line between, you know, what should happen and shouldn’t happen, which I thought was a great way of doing it."
Read more:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/What-Kingsman-Director-Initially-Hated-About-Samuel-L-Jackson-Performance-69692.html
and the secret is ... (he still has the problem until today)
Channels 4 reminded him about it. I thought the interviewer is going to get nuked lmao...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu2hGlhwcj8
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