Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
February 28 - March 6, 2021 l 3
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Damson Idris
OF ‘SNOWFALL’ ON FX
Did the layoff from the pandemic make for
challenges getting back into the character
when filming resumed?
Well the fortunate thing is because of the
pandemic and the situation we’ve all been in,
I wasn’t able to go off and do another role so
I actually just stayed in it, which I’m sure other
actors wouldn’t recommend you do. And given
the stuff that Franklin goes through this season,
you shouldn’t do. But I just thought it’d be helpful
and because we were in such a limbo, I never
really knew when we’d be specifically going back
so I just stayed in it, stayed in the headspace.
Franklin has this horrible limp this season because
he’s been shot three times. The whole season I
was walking with a cane and I tried to walk with
a cane at home (laughs) but I lost it in about
a month. I was like, “I can’t do this for a year,
man.” ... But yeah, just staying in the headspace
really got me in tune to coming back and it kept
me excited to finish the job that we started.
What’s been your favorite part of playing this character?
When you play characters who are drug dealers and criminals, you look at some of the characters
in “The Wire,” “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” the general consensus is that these are bad guys,
psychotic guys who have no soul and will blow someone’s brains out without even thinking about it.
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