Samuel L. Jackson plays dementia patient in his most personal project
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It took Samuel L. Jackson years to find a home for his passion project, \\u201cThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.\\u201d He\\u2019s the star and executive producer of the miniseries, based on a novel by Walter Mosley. Apple TV+ finally stepped up, but Jackson says once the project got going, the trillion-dollar-plus company still pinched pennies when he came to them with budget requests. \\u201cYou go, \\u2018Wait a minute, did you stop selling phones in the last hour or something? In the time we're having this conversation, you've made enough money to do this thing that I need you to do,\\u2019\\u201d Jackson says. Jackson talks about his mid-career stardom, the team he\\u2019s had around him for decades, and the bumpy road to bringing \\u201cThe Last Days of Ptolemy Grey\\u201d to life.
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