Damson Idris is revealing some of the struggles he went through filming the sixth season of ‘Snowfall.’ While speaking on his role as Franklin Saint, the actor opened up about how he had to call on the devil in order to tap into the character.
“I was hitting a block, right. I was like, ‘I’m not doing it right.” He said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “So I went in the corner, and then I was looking at the wall, and I was like, ‘Come on, devil. Come on, devil,’ right. ‘Come to me, like, come to me,’ because I had to do something, like, crazy, right.”
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“I had nightmares for a month. Like, I had nightmares every day, like, I felt, I just felt that energy. And I had to pray and do all this stuff to get rid of it. You know, you call your mom up, and you’re like bring me back to life. And that stuff is real. That stuff really is real.”
Damson Idris really showed the world his acting skills while playing his role on the hit show. Fans were upset the show came to an end but satisfied with the way the show ended. Idris’ character was something special to see on screen.
Show runner Dave Andron, recently spoke about how they hard a hard time deciding on how the show should end.
“Over the years, we talked a lot lot of different variations of it, I can remember pitching FX the fifth and sixth seasons and at that point, I was like, ‘Well, maybe he gets his money and loses everything and everybody and destroys his community, but he becomes the soloist.’ But this was the right thing to do and even in the very, very, very early mini rooms we did with Leonard [Chang] and John [Singleton] there was a talk of ‘Well, maybe he ends up destroyed like his father.’”
“It feels like the right thing,” added writer Walter Mosley. Mosley also told Variety that killing Franklin just wasn’t in the plans for their writing team. “I read it many times and I think we had the right ending for him and for everybody else.”
In preparation for the final scene, the Idris even left some of the production crew emotional as they also said goodbye to his character.
“When we walked onto the set for the first time with him and we talked about what they were going to do hair, makeup, wardrobe, right? But I hadn’t seen the full thing. So we walked onto the set for rehearsal and it was in Cissy’s house. We shot that stuff before we shot the stuff out in the street. The director, myself and our script supervisor walked on set and our script supervisor saw him over in the next room, in the corner, head down and muttering and shuffling around. She started crying. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, this is gonna land.’ Just seeing him, she couldn’t take it.”