Damson Idris revealed while playing his role as Franklin Saint in the acclaimed television series Snowfall that he looked to the devil for inspiration, which caused him nightmares.

The British actor, who plays a drug kingpin who distributes crack in South Central, Los Angeles, claimed he was in a ‘really dark mental space’. “In this last season I was hitting a block, I was like, ‘Oh I’m not doing it right,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter during a roundtable talk.

“I went in the corner and then I was looking at the wall, and I was like, ‘Come on Devil, come on Devil. Come to me, come to me. I had to do something, like, crazy. [I] had nightmares for a month. I had nightmares every day. I just felt that energy, and I had to pray and do all of this stuff to get rid of it. You know, you call your mum up, and you’re like, ‘Bring me back to life.’ That stuff is real, that stuff is really is real.”

Evan Peters, who played infamous killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,  Jeff Bridges from The Old Man, Kieran Culkin of Succession, Michael Imperioli of The White Lotus and The Last of Us’ Pedro Pascal was also part of the conversation. 

You can watch the critical discussion from these actors below:

Directed by the late John Singleton, Snowfall, completed its sixth and final season in April Despite not winning any major awards, the lack of recognition never bothered Idris. 

You know, it’s no elephant in the room that we’ve gone six seasons without being truly acknowledged by the higher-ups when it comes to awards,” he told Complex in a March interview. “And it’s a conversation that many people in our community have with regards to Snowfall specifically,” he explained. “What matters is the people and how the people take it. And people love Snowfall.”