By Fred Topel | Image property of Sony Screen Gems
Samuel L. Jackson doesn’t get to say MF in Lakeview Terrace. He doesn't even get to say F. The film is rated PG-13 and his costar Patrick Wilson gets the two permitted nonsexual F words. Even Jackson is not too happy about the PG-13 rating.
Samuel L Jackson on Lakeview Terrace
"What's the point?" Jackson said. "ven the PG-13 kids sneak into the good movies. They don't want to see a PG-13 movie. I wouldn't."
Jackson may still be a little kid. He always says he likes playing cops in movies, because it's like playing cops with his friends, only when he shoots the gun the bad guys bleed. They can't say, "You missed."
"This is more an adult movie. I'm not shooting and running and jumping stuff until right at the end of the movie. But it's kind of interesting because I had back surgery I guess maybe three weeks before we started shooting. So, the doctor kept telling me when I could actually do the big fight scene. It was kind of cool when I actually found out I could do it. 'Can I do the fight scene yet?' 'Not yet. No bending. No falling.' By the time we got to it, I was glad to know I was well enough to do it. So it was cool."
Um... Creepy
Lakeview Terrace
Lakeview Terrace
Lakeview Terrace
Lakeview Terrace stars Jackson as Abel Turner, a cop making life tough for his neighbors. He doesn't approve of their mixed marriage. Jackson worked with director Neil Labute to give Abel some more complexity.
"I guess in the early versions of the script he was just an out and out bully kind of guy. He's kind of a crazed guy. I wanted audiences to actually have a chance to make a choice between do you want to be on this guy's side or do you want to be on this guy's side? Is it okay if this guy smokes and bumps cigarettes in his yard or is it okay if he has this light on his house because there are bad people that live behind the house and they just happen to move in and it comes on when there is movement? Is it okay for his friends to look down on him because he's a cop? Is it okay for him to feel that way? Is it okay for them to make love in their pool when they know there are kids next door who may or may not see them? So there all these questions about who he is and what he does."
Now Abel isn't just some villain to be thwarted. He may be a lovable badass a la Samuel L. Jackson. "He has a moral compass it just kind of goes another way. Those are things we kind of refined so Abel did have raison d'etre of some sort that made sense to people watching it.
Lakeview Terrace opens to theaters on September 19th.
Um... Creepy 
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