DEMENTIA DRAMA

Samuel L. Jackson and bestselling author Walter Mosley have teamed up to produce the six-episode limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (March 11 on Apple TV+). The iconic actor, whose many films include Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane and entries in the Marvel superhero franchise, will star in the title role as a man with dementia who receives news of a “miracle” drug that can restore his memories. “My mom had dementia,” says Jackson, 73. “Her sister had it, brother had it, my grandfather had it. My father’s sister has it. So I’m kind of surrounded by it. I want people to be able to look at this story and know that there’s not a miracle drug, like Ptolemy takes, but there is a way to care for these people and be gentle with them in their time of need.”