“Everybody wants to know that they’re not the only one,” explains Samuel L. Jackson about why the story of “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” was so meaningful to him that he spent years trying to get it made into the six-part limited series now available to stream on Apple TV+. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease afflict many people and those who love them, but “we tend to think that we’re the only people suffering with the particular thing when it happens to us.” Jackson has experienced it in his own family, which “compelled me to want to portray this character to explore those emotions.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Jackson above.
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“Ptolemy Grey” is based on a novel by Walter Mosley, who adapted it for the screen himself (with two episodes co-written by Jerome Hairston). It tells the story of the title character,...
SEEExclusive Q&As: 2022 Emmy contenders
“Ptolemy Grey” is based on a novel by Walter Mosley, who adapted it for the screen himself (with two episodes co-written by Jerome Hairston). It tells the story of the title character,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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