Tarzan's gun-toting sidekick George Washington Williams (played by Samuel L. Jackson) is a character who's based on a real person who spent the last years of his life fighting for the rights of people of the Congo in the 1880s Congo Free State.

King Leopold II, the Belgium ruler that greedily vandalised Congo as he produced rubber for sale all over the world, made terrible atrocities while at it. He killed more than 10 million Congolese, enslaving most of them to work for his business pursuits.

These acts led to the famous open letter that Washington would write to His Majesty Leopold II, and that would later shock the world.

In the movie Legend of Tarzan, Williams is this black man who is deeply concerned for the African nation that he is worried of the injustices the continent faces, yet the world is one global community.

In an interview about his role, Jackson revealed that playing this role was quite complex, but interesting!

He had to do loads of research about his character, and in the process fell in love with Africa and its people.

Some of his profound moments included how Tarzan related well with animals, even sleeping among them, and playing with them.

“I think this is one of the clearest explanations of what his relationship to those gorillas and that tribe is.

In terms of what his relationship is to the other male gorillas, what his relationship was to the gorilla who adopted him — and took care of him,” he says in an interview with Vibe.com.

You need to get out and see Williams, the man who so cared for Africans and its expansive wealth resources that he opted to go this journey with Tarzan!

See the trailer below!