Samuel L. Jackson on Bernie Mac in Soul Men: "He was just out there doing his thing"

Underpinning Soul Men's high-energy hilarity is an unmistakable theme of mortality - a strange coincidence following the unexpected deaths of two costars, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.

Samuel L. Jackson, who plays an aging member of a former soul group alongside Mac, says the theme leaves him solemn and optimistic.

"I'll be 60 in December, so, I look at that, and I look in the mirror, and I still don't look like somebody I thought would look like this at 60," he told TVGuide.com "So, I think about it."

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