and joining me now from new york, actor jeffrey wright.ou probably know him best from "west world" and "the hunger games: catching fire." wonderful to have you with us. >> thanks for having me, rosemary. >> of course you live in brooklyn, and you've been trying to help two local restaurants that have been making meals for health care workers who were looking after covid-19 patients. and the reaction has been incredible. how did you first find out about the work these restaurants were doing, and why did you decide that you needed to help? >> well, we started together. one restaurant, a placed called brooklyn moon, owned by a good friend of mine named michael thompson has been in the neighborhood for 25 years. i've lived here 20 years and we've been friends ever since. michael is not delivery-oriented. he is a social space. his space was the center for the spoken word scene at one point. erica bahdu performered her first show in new york city at his space. he needed to reorient his business toward delivery mode as we were going into lockdown

jeffrey wright joins us.rough's health care workers and first responders by supporting local restaurants. created by the help of family and friends, here now is the premiere of brooklyn for life's relief video. here's a first look at a portion of it. >> brooklyn for life. >> brooklyn for life. >> from the front lines of this fight are our health care workers from places like -- >> brooklyn hospital. >> interfaith medical center! >> brooklyn for life! >> brooklyn for life. >> and our first responders like those in -- >> engine 39. >> station 40. >> like them i'm brooklyn for life. >> brooklyn for life! >> jeffrey wright, this is awesome. tell us what your goal is. >> well, our goal is to keep as many of these small business mom and pop restaurants in brooklyn vital and serving meals to local hospitals and ems stations for as long as it takes. we have a rotation of about 42 restaurants now. we're serving seven medical facilities in brooklyn. we're serving all ten ems stations so i think yesterday we surpassed t