Chatting on Paloma Faiths Mad Sad Bad podcast in what is billed as his ‘first and last’ ever podcast appearance (don’t believe it, only Sith deal in absolutes so challenge accepted) Samuel L. Jackson remembers a near death experience back in 1988 that very nearly resulted in him meeting the light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel in question being the New York subway.

“I got dragged by a subway train in New York… I got dragged by the A train. I was in the middle door of the last car, and it was a long-ass train station. And when the door closed on my foot, [the] train took off. So I’m sitting there thinking, I’m like, ‘Oh, f‑‑‑, I’m going to die.'”

“I could see the tunnel coming, and I couldn’t figure out anything that I could grab or hold on to and get close to the train so I wouldn’t get killed in the tunnel.”

“It just slowed down really, really slow, until all of a sudden the train stopped.”

“The guy who pulled the emergency cord was on crutches. Everybody else in there was trying to open the door, get my foot out the door, push and push and pull and try and take my shoe off. And he was going to the emergency cord and he finally pulled it and stopped it.”