00:00Youth drives so much of what we do that we've forgotten how to you know talk to
00:08talk to old people or look at them and understand that you know they didn't get
00:12old by accident. I try to say what day it is, I ain't got a clue.
00:19Hey!
00:21What you doing, huh?
00:26So you want me to take you to that special doctor?
00:28I want to make it help you remember things.
00:30Thank you Brandy Victoria with Essence magazine. Such a pleasure to see you. You know the character
00:35of Ptolemy Gray I feel like feels like something we haven't seen you play before. So I would love
00:40if you could talk about what drew you to this role.
00:43Well I've been drawn to Ptolemy for a long time just because of the amount of Alzheimer's and
00:51dementia that has passed through my family. You know at least you know four or five you know family
00:56members. So I've watched the light go out on a lot of people's eyes. And just wanted to tell a story
01:01about this guy who lived this wonderful and kind of you know fruitful life who's now isolated and by
01:12himself. And what happens when a person like that gets thrown away? And what value that person still
01:19has when someone comes along and kind of you know pulls him up off the trash heap and polishes him
01:23off and you know the things they can find out. Yeah. You know and there's this quote which I think
01:29is Ptolemy's dad that says you know all a man is is what he remembers. You know what do you make of
01:35that statement and do you believe that that's true? Well it's not all that all a man is is what he
01:40remembers. All a man is is what people remember about that man. You know because he can have one opinion
01:47of himself but it's all about how you affected the world uh and what your uh thing was. I mean there
01:55are there are there are there are numerous statements about you know uh a person needs to leave their mark
02:03to to to to say that they've lived a life worthwhile or whatever. So you know I think I've done that and
02:10I think Ptolemy did that but he also knew that he was tasked with something that he hadn't done and
02:18even in the midst of that fog that he was in he was still trying to figure out what that thing was.
02:23Uh and fortunately the fanciful part of the story when he's cured for that particular amount of time
02:30allows him to go back and fix that particular thing and do for his family what he needs to do and for his
02:37people. It's so funny you say you know you think you had that when I was sitting in the waiting room
02:41I literally was on Twitter and someone had compiled like all your movies and they were like oh we're
02:47talking range and I was like I think Ptolemy you know would fit there of just that range of that
02:52character. Thank you. Yes. Lastly you know there's a lot of themes you know that are being touched on
02:58in this series. What is one thing you would like audiences to take away um from the last days of
03:03time of day? I'd like for them to take away the fact that um old people have a lot to give us
03:12you know um I think that's something that's that's kind of been lost over a period of time that um
03:22youth drives so much of what we do um that we've forgotten how to you know talk to talk to old
03:31people look at them and understand that you know they didn't get old by accident you know that they
03:37live they breathe they see and everything all the experiences they have might explain to them some of
03:46the things that they find you know um difficult to understand right now. Well thank you so much for
03:53your time. Thank you. Take care. All right.
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