It's the speech every cult cinemaphile knows by heart. The cold, deliberate oration; the righteous fury; the unwavering faith.
Hearing contract killer Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) recite the slightly modified words of Ezekiel 25:17 -- before filling Brett (Frank Whaley) with bullets -- in Quentin Tarantino's seminal, now-20-year-old crime drama Pulp Fiction is not an experience forgotten lightly. Not even, it turns out, for Jackson himself.
Appearing on The Graham Norton Show over the weekend, Jackson was put on the spot during the taping (or possibly during the taping's pre-show interview) to recite the infamous monologue as though he were greeting a potential suitor looking to take his daughter, Zoe, out on a date. And, Jesus, did he nail it.
Suffice to say, the passage of time hasn't dulled the man's sense of recall, and, also, you definitely wouldn't want to be that kid, even if he is a purely hypothetical construct of Graham Norton's mind.
Relive the original scene in all its glory below:
