After seeing the movie, critics and Lee himself considered Jackson’s role of drug addict Gator to be his breakout role of all time because of the variety of emotions that he gives throughout the movie. This was the last movie that he worked with Lee but they later reunited at the 2012 BET Awards and for the movie Oldboy. What you probably didn’t know about the connection between Jackson and Lee is that they both attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.