Apple shows how Kobe Bryant is struggling with old age - CNET

He's seated with actor Michael B. Jordan. The shtick is that Jordan will play Bryant in a movie.

The young Bryant, that is.

There are those who believe that Bryant always strove to be another Jordan and failed, so why would a Jordan ever want to be a Bryant -- even a young one?

But actors are fickle beings. always wanting to play someone younger than they are. So Bryant opens the NBA app on Apple TV to show Jordan the finer points of the younger Bryant.

But Jordan explains that he's playing the Bryant who also endured a steep decline. The so-called Black Mamba claims there was no decline.

Jordan finds an artistic way to break it to Bryant that he's done. Bryant is in denial, as he often was about his own greatness.

Without a supporting cast, he was always less than met the eye, but never less than met his ego.

It's therefore extremely hard for the Lakers star to confront the artistic truth -- even though Bryant fancies himself to be a truly interesting writer.

This Apple TV ad follows on from one launched a couple of weeks ago, in which "Game of Thrones" actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau tries to perfect the art of kissing in movies.