community of other struggling black actors that included denzel washington, morgan freeman, laurence fishburne, and wesley snipes. >> jackson other work. we partied together. when you weren't working, everybody at the same unemployment office pretty much, so you see each other on mondays at unemployment. >> kroft: by 1990, jackson was an established new york actor, having played memorable characters in three spike lee movies, including "do the right thing." >> i have today's forecast for you-- hot! >> kroft: but personally his life was a mess. you had a-- some drug and alcohol issues. >> jackson: they weren't issues till the end. >> kroft: what do you mean, "the end?" >> jackson: you know, i wasn't managing it as well as i used to. that's when they were issues. before that, it was just life, you know, i drank, i smoked. i got high. you know, it wasn't in the way of my life, in that way, or i didn't think it was. >> kroft: he was going to work, taking his daughter to school, and making enough money to develop a taste for cocaine. and he went all in. >> kroft: did it reach addiction stage? >> jackson: yes. well, you know, it'