From loving memes to being a generous scene partner always willing to offer suggestions, Jackson's castmates open up about their boss and leading man.
, not once but three times. “He called up and said, ‘I want to make this.’ He explained how he wanted to do it and I said, ‘Wow, you really want to make this as a show,'” Mosley recalls of the intial chat aboutOnly it wasn’t. The road ahead was long and winding with many detours over the course of a decade before the adaptation eventually found a home at Apple TV+ with Jackson in the title role.
He plays “an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and by even himself. Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink of sinking even deeper into lonely dementia, Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn . When they learn about a treatment that can restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths about the past, present and future.