SNOWFALL - SEASON 4 - DAMSON IDRIS INTERVIEW

Damson Idris is back for another explosive Season of “Snowfall” when the gripping drama travels back in time to the Reagan years and looks at the cocaine crisis and its impact on inner city communities.

Co-created by the late John Singleton, Snowfall returns for season four as business is booming. It’s January 1, 1985. Ronald Reagan has won his re-election campaign proclaiming it is “morning again in America,” but in South Central, Los Angeles, it feels more like the sun is getting low. The demand for crack cocaine is high, and while our crew of dealers led by Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) are benefitting greatly from the rising tide of addiction, they are also starting to become aware of the damage the drug is doing to the people and to the place they love. With the entire nation taking note, the LAPD is diverting serious money and resources to the “war on drugs.” Politicians’ phones are ringing. Powerful people are concerned from the hallways of The White House to those of CIA headquarters, where there are whispers that one of their own may be involved in this burgeoning epidemic.

Damson Idris is a British actor of Nigerian decent born and raised in London. His acting debut was on the stage, starring in both Khadija Is 18 (2012) and Pandora’s Box (2012) in the same year, before his feature role in Hotel (2014) at the Royal National Theatre. He currently stars as the lead in the hit FX series Snowfall playing “Franklin Saint,” a young street entrepreneur during the crack epidemic in Los Angeles. His performance in Snowfall won him the Screen Nation Award for Male Performance in TV (2020) and a MOBO nomination for Best Performance in a TV Show/Film (2020). Idris has also guest-starred in the critically acclaimed series Black Mirror (2019) and Jordon Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone (2019).

Most recently, Idris played the role of a drone pilot in Netflix’s Outside the Wire, which premiered January 15, 2021.

I spoke to Damson Idris from is home in London about what we can expect in Season 4, how the pandemic helped him with his role and starring opposite Anthony Mackie in the hit Netflix movie, Outside the Wire.

Season Four Premieres Wednesday, February 24th 10pm ET/PT on FX and next day on FX on Hulu