The eyepatch may be gone, but Samuel L. Jackson is still playing the hero. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Jackson—best known for playing the one-eyed Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—plays a reclusive old man with dementia who is given a miracle drug to help him remember his past.
Though the cure is only temporary, Ptolemy uses the brief respite from his impairment to investigate the death of his nephew Reggie.
Here, the actor explains how it took so long to adapt the popular Walter Mosley book of the same name into an Emmy-worthy limited series for Apple TV.DEADLINE: This is such a poetic mood piece.
Have you ever played anyone like Ptolemy Grey before?SAMUEL L. JACKSON: It’s been a long time since I’ve done a piece that has dramatic quality and requires me to call on the acting things that I learned when I was in theater.
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