Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, currently starring on Broadway in The Mountaintop, visit with the ladies of The View.
Jackson's only Broadway experience was as an understudy in The Piano Lesson. His off-Broadway credits include the original production of A Soldier's Play. An Academy Award nominee for Pulp Fiction, Jackson has appeared in movies that include A Time to Kill,The Incredibles, Unbreakable, Snakes on a Plane, Black Snake Moan,The Red Violin, Rules of Engagement, The Long Kiss Goodnight,Changing Lanes and Lakeview Terrace.
Bassett received an Oscar nomination for playing Tina Turner opposite Laurence Fishburne in What’s Love Got to Do With It. She has appeared on Broadway in Joe Turner's Come and Gone and off-Broadway in Macbeth (opposite Alec Baldwin), Henry IV Part I andBlack Girl. Bassett and Fishburne recently co-starred in Fences at the Pasadena Playhouse, and she appeared opposite her actor husband, Courtney B. Vance, in the Guthrie Theatre’s premiere of a stage adaptation of His Girl Friday by John Guare.