Damson Idris Reveals he was 23 Years old when he started filming ‘Snowfall

Damson Idris Reveals he was 23 Years old when he started filming ‘Snowfall.

But the 31-year-old British actor has experienced a whole different kind of celebrity since he began dating model Lori Harvey late last year. The new power couple — who went Instagram-official on Harvey’s birthday, Jan. 13 — has become a hot gossip topic.

Idris’s magnetic performance as Franklin, who transforms from an eager kid to dead-eyed capitalist, powered the show from when it found its footing in season three and even through shakier seasons like five. In a just world, he’d have at least three Emmy nominations by now. But Idris tells GQ he’s just happy that above all else, he and the show’s creative team delivered an ending that he’s certain Singleton would be proud of. (In the final scene, set in 1990, drunk Franklin walks by a bespectacled South Central kid filming a movie in the hood and yells, in an ad-lib Idris came up with, “Y’all ain’t gon win no Oscar!” GQ spoke to him about Franklin’s point of no return, the alternate endings to Snowfall that were considered, and coming up with some of the final season’s best lines off the cuff.

So what’s the secret to blocking out the blogosphere in their young romance? “You stay at home and hide in the cave,” Idris told Rolling Stone with a laugh. “No, I think my advice to anyone who walks down that path is to just keep it as regular and normal as possible and really, really connect to each other and not the outside forces around.”

Dating Harvey — the 26-year-old stepdaughter of comedian Steve Harvey, who was coming off a high-profile split with “Creed” star Michael B. Jordan — Idris has already learned to keep his personal life to himself as much as possible.

Ending a series is one of the hardest things about making serialized television. How did you guys land on leaving Franklin where you did?

Well, we always really knew that it would end in tragedy. This is a guy who’s done some horrible things, and karmic retribution is real. You have to be accountable for your actions. We definitely fought, from very early on actually, to try and make Franklin as dislikeable as possible, so that if audiences were still on his side, we knew we had them. There would be an ongoing joke, all throughout the show, that, “Man, no matter what we make Damson do, they always love him.”