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THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 2021
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“Harrow”
Ioan Gruffudd (“Liar,” the “Horatio
Hornblower” series of TV movies) returns
for the third season of this Australian
drama in which he stars as a forensic
pathologist with an unfailing empathy for
the dead and a total disregard for authority.
Jolene Anderson, Mirrah Foulkes, Remy
Hii and Anna Lise Phillips also star.
“Movie: 12 Hour Shift”
It’s Elvis! Elvis! Elvis! all the time in this
lightweight 1962 musical comedy in which
he stars as a penniless Hawaiian fishing
guide caught between two women (Stella
Stevens, Laurel Goodwin) while trying
to figure out a way to buy the sailboat he
built with his father after his boss decides
to retire. Jeremy Slate and Benson Fong
also star.
From writer/director Brea Grant (“Best
Friends Forever”) comes this 2020 gorefest
about the bloody havoc that results when
a junkie nurse and her deranged cousin try
to find a replacement kidney for an organ
trafficker. Angela Bettis (“May”), David
Arquette (the “Scream” movies) and Chloe
Farnworth (“Other Monsters”) head the
cast.
Checking in with
DAMSON IDRIS
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Movie: The United States vs.
Billie Holiday”
“Movie: Girls! Girls! Girls!”
When Damson Idris first landed the role of
drug dealer Franklin Saint in the FX crime drama
“Snowfall,” he spent some time in South Central Los
Angeles to research how such a character would walk,
talk and interact with others.
Now, with three seasons gone by and a fourth
premiering Wednesday, Feb. 24, the 29-year-old
British actor has gotten plenty of validation from the
people from that neighborhood.
“You talk about people like YG, Nipsey Hussle, the
Game, Dub C, Snoop Dogg,” he says, “these are all
people I knew personally, who sat me down, looked
me in the face and said, ‘Job well done. You look like,
sound like, walk, talk, act like the guys I grew up
with.’ ... And I was just really blessed and honored to
receive their blessing and to receive their salute because
they were the true people who I wanted to impress.”
As the new season opens, it’s now 1985 and the
crack epidemic is raging, which is good for Franklin’s
business but bad for the neighborhood where he lives.
He’s also in a weakened state and walking with a limp,
having been shot by on-and-off girlfriend Melody
(Reign Edwards) in the Season 3 finale.
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter
Andra Day has the title role in director
Lee Daniels’ (“Precious,” “The Butler”)
drama movie set in the 1940s and follows
the jazz legend as she’s targeted by the
Federal Department of Narcotics in a
sting operation led by an agent (Trevante
Rhodes) with whom she had a tumultuous
affair. Natasha Lyonne, Garrett Hedlund
and Rob Morgan also star. (ORIGINAL)
“This season, we find Franklin with a broken spirit,”
Idris explains. “He’s less sure of himself, less sure of
whether he can actually be the boss and take control
of this empire and take control of this inner and outer
conflict that’s happening around him. So he’s obviously
been shot three times and he’s very weak physically but
he’s also weak mentally. And as the season progresses,
we’re witnessing Franklin come back into his own.”
Full name: Damson Idris
Birth date: Sept. 2, 1991
Birthplace: London
Education: Has a bachelor of arts degree in
theater, film and television studies from Brunei
University in London
Family ties: Was raised by a single mother
with three brothers and two sisters
TV credits: “Miranda,” “The Missing,”
“Babylon,” “Doctors,” “Casualty,” “The Twilight
Zone,” “Black Mirror”
Movie credits: “My Brother the Devil” (2012),
“City of Tiny Lights” (2016), “Megan Leavey”
(2017), “The Commuter” (2018), “Astral” (2018),
“Farming” (2018), “Outside the Wire” (2021)