Damson Idris Says He Had Nightmares For Months After Calling On The Devil To Help Him Do A Scene For Snowfall as Franklin Saint

Damson Idris Says He Had Nightmares For Months After Calling On The Devil To Help Him Do A Scene For Snowfall as Franklin Saint.

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.

Unbeknownst to the naive young man, Franklin was helping the U.S. government fund its war against communism in Nicaragua. He would later learn the hard way when his empire began to crumble. 

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. By season 6, the drug game had groomed Franklin into a monster set on reclaiming $5 million by any means necessary, even if it required bleeding those he called family and friends. In the latest iteration of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Actors Roundtable,” Idris shared that he was left tormented after embracing the dark and ruthless character.

“I was hitting a block, right. I was like, ‘I’m not doing it right,’” he recalled about an especially challenging plot in the storyline — though the amount of sinister acts he commits in season 6 makes it challenging to pinpoint which one he refers to in the conversation.

In the final season, Franklin had become a thief and a cold-hearted killer. A stark contrast from the bright scholar who had his entire life ahead of him when he was indoctrinated into the drug game by CIA operative Teddy McDonald while attending college.