Samuel L. Jackson reveals why he feuded with Spike Lee over ‘Malcolm X’

Samuel L. Jackson is glad to be pals again with frequent collaborator Spike Lee.

The Marvel actor, 74, began feuding with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, 66, back in 1992 after they had a fight over Jackson’s salary for the epic “Malcolm X.”

The “Pulp Fiction” star was actually set to star as Baines — a character that Albert Hall was later cast in — for Lee’s drama about the civil rights activist.

Jackson got candid about how his dispute with the “BlacKkKlansman” director came about in a recent chat with Vulture.

“I actually read with most of the people who auditioned for ‘Malcolm X.’ But it was still down to that Spike Lee scale-plus-10 salary thing,” Jackson said, referring to the system created by the Screen Actors Guild that allows 10% of an actor’s paycheck to go to their agent.

“I was like, ‘I’m not going to work for no scale-plus-10,’” he recalled.

Jackson noted that he took on the 1992 crime thriller “White Sands” over “Malcolm X,” which led to a falling out with Lee in conjunction with the money issue.

The two already had a successful working relationship with each other, as Jackson had starred in Lee’s previous flicks, “Jungle Fever,” “School Daze” and “Do the Right Thing.”

“I used to call my agent every day to see if I had any auditions, callbacks, whatever. And my line to her every day was, ‘Hollywood call?’ She was like, ‘No, sir.’ So one day I called, she said, ‘As a matter of fact, yeah, they did. You just won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.’ And I’m, like, ‘What? For what?’” the Washington D.C. native recalled.

It turns out Jackson scored the first-ever Cannes’ Best Supporting Performance Award in 1991 for the romantic drama “Jungle Fever.” — His team said the trophy was “made up” for him, to which Jackson replied, “Get the f–k out of here!”

That win apparently drew interest from the makers of “White Sands,” who wanted to see him cast as FBI Special Agent Greg Meekeras.

Because of taking that role over “Malcolm X,” Jackson and Lee “fell out,” he said.

But Jackson does give credit where credit is due, attributing his long-lasting success in Tinseltown to “Jungle Fever,” saying his role as a crack-addicted man named Gator “got him into Hollywood.”

“The majority of black people in America at that time, at a certain economic strata, had a [character] Gator in their family,” he said, adding that his own struggles with drugs contributed to his performance in “Jungle Fever.”

Jackson had previously been in rehab and got clean right before filming the Wesley Snipes-starring film.

“Coach Carter” star Jackson reunited with Lee in 2013 and “healed” their relationship when the latter dropped his project “Oldboy,” a remake — also starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen — of Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 South Korean film of the same name, about which both men shared a passion.

On finally reuniting with “Da 5 Bloods” filmmaker Lee again, Jackson said shooting with him again “was just like we’d never stopped,” he told Playboy Magazine in 2013.

“He’s very efficient, knows what he wants and doesn’t get in my way artistically — whatever I come with, I come with, and it’s cool.”