Damson Idris is one of the biggest up-and-coming stars in Hollywood. For one who began his acting career not more than over a decade ago, Idris has managed to pull many strings and win numerous jaw-dropping roles, including that of Joshua Pearce in Brad Pitt’s upcoming much-awaited untitled Formula One movie.
But that’s in the future and Idris has already achieved a lot more than several other newbies in the industry for the same time span as him. Within only five years since the inception of his career, he won his breakout role as the lead in Snowfall, the superhit crime/drama television series. However, while Damson Idris won his recognition through that, it only came to him at a terrifying cost.
Damson Idris’ Unbelievably Terrifying Experience While Shooting Snowfall
Damon Idris beat several top-rated actors when he won the ticket to play the lead role of 19-year-old Franklin Saint in the six-season megahit television show Snowfall. In the story, which is set around the 1980s in LA when the deadly crack cocaine epidemic had just begun, Idris plays a young street entrepreneur who deals in drugs to earn money – something that eventually leads him into trouble.
However, while he performed immaculately in the first five seasons, the 32-year-old star felt he lacked inspiration for the last episode. Appearing on the Drama Actors Roundtable episode of The Hollywood Reporter, Idris shared his experience of the same, saying:
“I remember sometimes we did 10 episodes for my show [Snowfall]. And in this last season, I was hitting a block, right? I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not doing it right.'”
Since the series was his breakout role and was super essential to him, the Farming star was willing to go to extremes just to play his character right. And these ‘extremes’ even included calling out to the Devil for inspiration.
“So I went in the corner and I was looking at the wall, and I was like, ‘Come on, devil, come on. Come to me.’ Because I had to do something crazy, right?”
That might sound insane to most people considering how it seems pretty impossible. But that wasn’t the case with Idris, who ended up actually getting what he prayed for. Continuing, he said,
“Had nightmares for a month. So it does come, after. Like, I had nightmares every day, like, I just felt that energy, you know?”
Unbelievably enough, Damson Idris nailed it even in the last season of the blockbuster series – but at what cost?
How Damson Idris Managed To Get Rid Of The Nightmares
After he was done shooting for Snowfall, Damson Idris had to find a way out to get rid of what he had called upon himself just for a spectacularly remarkable performance on-screen. Continuing to tell The Hollywood Reporter, he revealed how he somehow managed to get rid of it all.
“I had to pray and do all this stuff to, like, get rid of it. You know you call your mom up, and you’re like, ‘Bring me back to life.’ Like, that stuff is real. That stuff really is real.”
Perhaps this is a sign to all the people who had been thinking of doing something similar to actually not do it, because, as Damson Idris said: This stuff is real!
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
