But it’s this horror endeavor that frightened him the most.
“Every story I know backwards and forwards.”
“In fact, it scared the s— out of me.”
David Dastmalchian stars in ‘The Boogeyman’ as Lester Billings.Patti Perret/20th Century Studios
And then I said, ‘Okay, let’s see what happens.’
And it was hard, man.
It was really hard."
David Dastmalchian in ‘The Dark Knight’.warner bros.
Savage, for one, is very grateful that Dastmalchian changed his mind.
“David is one of the most thoughtful, collaborative, and committed actors I’ve ever worked with.
It would seem as though other directors feel the same way.
David Dastmalchian in ‘Ant-Man’.Zade Rosenthal/Disney
“In 2007, I was five years clean and sober,” he says.
“I was doing theater for free basically in Chicago and working as a telemarketer.
“One of the greatest filmmakers of all time looked at me and said, ‘Yeah, you.
David Dastmalchian in ‘The Suicide Squad’.Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
Come be a part of this,'” recalls Dastmalchian, still amazed.
“I didn’t even think he remembered me.
I didn’t even think he would know who I was,” Dastmalchian remarks of Nolan.
David Dastmalchian.Michael Kovac/Getty Images
“This is Bubblegum,” he says.
Bubblegum helped me through a lot of my grief-processing.”
As has probably become clear by now, Dastmalchian is happy to talk about his mental health issues.
The actor is keen to promote the idea that such transparency is a good thing.
“There’s so much stigma around that stuff,” he says today.
I think we’re getting somewhere, but there’s so far to go.”
Dastmalchian’s description of himself as a “character actor” is accurate.
Not that you’ll hear the actor complaining about that.
“Every character’s important, every role’s important,” he says.
You know, you’ve got two scenes to try and actually help propel a story.
I want to be a guy that helps shoot things forward."
It’s great storytelling.
It was a hard shoot, the hardest I’ve ever done.
Late Night With the Devilrecently won the Audience Award at the horror movie-showcasing Overlook Festival.
The film also gota severed-thumbs up on Twitter from Stephen Kingwho described the movie as, “absolutely brilliant.
I couldn’t take my eyes off it.”
The author would have equally good things to say aboutThe Boogeyman.
So, at the moment, I’m having a surreal horror hound transcendence.
Okay, I can retire.'"
“Although,” he adds, “I’llneverretire.”
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