Samuel L Jackson On His First TV Starring Role In Dementia Drama The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey: “Everybody Is A TV Star” Because Of The Pandemic

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The MCU actor shows off his fragile side in the Apple TV+ drama, 'The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey'.

alongside co-stars Brie Larson, Gemma Chan and the movie’s directors, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

“I read the novel 10, 12 years ago and I thought Ptolemy was this fascinating, wonderful, and cinematic character that I thought would be fun to play,” Jackson 73, tells a group of journos from Los Angeles via Zoom. “I was kind of surrounded by [the disease],” says Jackson. “As I thought more and more of doing this particular character, I gathered more poignancy in terms of my life — who I was, what I was dealing with and how I want to present this story to the world and what it would mean if it was possible to get it done.”

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