One of those is Samuel L. Jackson's Bible-quoting character, Jules Winnfield, portrayed as only Jackson can.
Fans would not even want to imagine Jules with any other hairstyle than his Jheri curl—a style that accurately reflected the time the movie played off in.
That famous curly wig was almost sent back to the store because it was wrongly bought by a production assistant who did not know the difference between an Afro and a Jheri curl!
Needless to say, when she returned with the wig, Tarantino was less than pleased, because he was going for a blaxploitation, big Afro look. At first Tarantino ordered that the wig be returned immediately and that she must bring back an Afro wig as per his original instruction.
Here Samuel stepped in. He recalls: "I was, like, 'No, wait!' You know, N.W.A., Ice Cube, all those guys had Jheri curls. That was the look of the gangs and all those guys who were over there bangin...So I put it on and we shined it up a bit and we were like, OK, this is how he (Jules) is."
I wonder if anybody ever thanked the production assistant for her brilliant 'mistake'.
