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Those two words alone are a signal to me to like, Okay, lets go have some fun.

Ive watched every iteration of it since somebody came up with the concept.

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I always wanted to be in one.

When youre a kid, theyre fantastic.

Theyre set in exotic places.

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Then youve got King Kong, hes in this really exotic jungle.

Jungle always means somewhere hot and dangerous and whatever to city kids.

It smacked of exoticism and adventure, which was great for me.

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Kong: Skull Islandis set in the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War is winding down.

He soon wants his revenge, and he wants to take it out on Kong.

I tend to think of him as Ahab at a certain point, says Jackson.

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King Kong becomes his white whale.

Hes killed enough of his men.

Hes trying to exact some revenge.

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He totally believes that man is the dominant creature on earth.

Hes trying to exact some revenge.

Going to Vietnam was a first for even the well-traveled Jackson.

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Its a pretty amazing place, Jackson explains.

The city is like everywhere else.

I mean its like going to New York City.

If you go to Hanoi, youre in New York on crack.

Its just like a thousand times more motorbikes than cars.

The French had tried.

Its beautiful and its treacherous.

The people are amazing.

Its visually stunning, and assaults the senses in an interesting way.

Being there gave me a whole other understanding of what the war was and who those people were.

We had some military advisors on the film who had actually been in the war.

They were still discovering mines and bombs and stuff out there.

They seem to be finding ways of not putting me in the rest of them.

Damn, is Nick Fury still out there walking around trying to find whatever happened to S.H.I.E.L.D.

They keep hiding me now.

It was intended to be a trilogy from the beginning.

I dont know why they abandoned that idea.

Its a much bigger cult film thanThe Sixth Senseis.

I think theres an audience out there for that movie.

Kong: Skull Islandis out in theaters this Friday (March 10).

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