How far did ‘Snowfall’ star Damson Idris go to portray his evil character Franklin Saint in the FX drama?
He actually called on the devil, he told a Hollywood Reporter pre-awards panel, astonishing fellow actors Kieran Culkin, Pedro Pascal, Evan Peters and Jeff Bridges.
“Last season I was hitting a block, and I was like, ‘I’m not doing it right,’ so I went into a corner and said, ‘Come on, heck, come at me,’ ’cause I had to do something crazy, right?” he says in the video.
The “crazy” conjuration helped him in his scenes, but he thinks it hurt him a lot.
“I had nightmares for a month. I felt the energy. And I had to pray and do all this to get rid of it. You know, you call your mother and you say to yourself: Bring me back to life.’ »
He summed up, “This stuff is real. This stuff is really real.
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Idris shared his story after Peters was asked about playing real-life serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix docuseries.
The series finale “Snowfall” aired on April 19. Idris has already won a BET Award for “Best Actor” for the series. If nominated for this year’s Emmys, it would be his first nomination.
He recently joined the cast of Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 racing movie.
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