PT. 1 John Singleton Introduces Damson Idris, Molding his L.A Accent with WC + New “Snowfall” Show
The fresh new hit series star, Damson Idris and Director and Writer, John Singleton, stop by to discuss the new show, Snowfall. Early in the interview Singleton discusses how he has had this show mapped out in his head since he was the age of 11.
The show depicts the breakdown of the community and family, after drugs hit the South Central area in Los Angeles. Singleton focuses on the epidemic of crack in specific because it relates to one of the biggest wars against black people. “I look at three different moments in Black History that really effected us; slavery, Jim Crow, and Crack,” said Singleton. He speaks on the importance of Crack because it shows how Crack really broke family’s down.
As the lead actor, Idris, discusses the process of his auditioning and how he understands playing a character of this magnitude comes with responsibility. He also takes us into his past as he discusses how crack hit his neighborhood in the early 2000s.Not only does this show relate to everyone who grew up in L.A. during those times, you can hear how it has effected people across other nations. The crack epidemic was such an immense time because it had the power to completely break down a person.
In the second part of the interview Idris and Singleton talk on the new disturbing scene of the show, Snowfall. With the help of some callers, Singleton touches base on how authentic he wanted the show to be, that is why he incorporated the scene into the show. “Everything I do, I try to get people really emotionally invested in it,” said Singleton. “If you can do that as a story teller folks will watch your stuff over and over.”
Watch John Singleton and Damson Idris’ passionate conversation with Sway, about the new show, Snowfall.
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Rip John Singleton you werr a legend
@mrshad544
5 жыл бұрын
BADGIRL MELISSA very sad. Great talent
Snowfall & Atlanta some of the best TV I've seen in a very long time!
This is the first I ever saw Snowfall! Love it! And Idris, I was saying the other day he plays his character Franklin well! If he stays on top of his game I could see him being a future Denzel!🙂
@benjaminbailey6383
5 жыл бұрын
I was thinkn the samething... Hes a star!
@joegriggsjr.6511
5 жыл бұрын
Y is it that when it comes to doing great we have to knock another one of us off a pedestal. Fuck that. Idris could be the next Tom Hanks or Leonardo DiCaprio.
@anandboss7034
2 жыл бұрын
Seriously though, why Is this guy so similar to Denzel
Damson is allready a star!!
Snowfall better than power!
@treygosby5541
7 жыл бұрын
king dre hold up it just started. Way too early too tell
@RealTalk-lb1fg
7 жыл бұрын
Yea hold up a minute ! Last time I checked Power was smashing everything right now . This show looks like it could be a classic , but let's wait and see
@AykihRa
7 жыл бұрын
RealTalk100 602 better than Empire
@RealTalk-lb1fg
7 жыл бұрын
king dre It could be , but right now it's not . I like this show snowfall everytime I see it . It is better than Empire though !
@philc8816
5 жыл бұрын
Better then power hell yeah it is because 100% real shit .. everyone knows someone that this shit hit home for....
John ain't lying! Mammas left they babies, chasing that ROCK!
my naija brother. we are so everywhere. goodness!
Wow Damson is a pretty cool funny dude.
@ritaidris3879
7 жыл бұрын
Nani I see him everyday I'm his nephew and to be honest if lurking around every Damson idris video
Damson is super cool... His funny too, I can see his going far with his career
Rip John such a beautiful mind, told the story of my environment so well #legend!
Snowfall 🔥🔥🔥 Series
@ashch5867
7 жыл бұрын
Shane Burrell What network is showing?
@srey_504
7 жыл бұрын
Ashley Herda FX
@RiverCity24
7 жыл бұрын
Shane Burrell 💯
RIP JOHN, continued blessings to your family and crew. I sure hope the scripts for the show go on 6 years down the road. Wow.
He called it a "Ghetto Game Of Thrones"...What an Analogy...Lol
The season 2 ended and I can't get enough! Keep watching it over and over!🙂
Snowfall Dopee Af!
John Singleton is the goat💯
Snowfall & Damson Idris...FIYA!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Excellent Series!! Can't wait for SEASON TWO!!!
I love this show.. I havent missed an episode..
Watched first 2 seasons of Snowfall and im obsessed. Brilliant story telling!! RIP john!!
I remember what crack did to my community, the lives it destroyed and i hope he shows it in this show
Damson amazing with the accents
John Singleton had been involved in a lot of classic movies, Boyz in the Hood, Poetic Justice, great director.
@dadaddymak
7 жыл бұрын
3 Good Guys higher learning too
@3goodguys201
7 жыл бұрын
Anthony Murray That movie was a classic
@angeljohnon9251
6 жыл бұрын
poetic justice?? was that from 1992
One of my favorite Shows. Will rerun it in a couple of months
John never allows Damson to talk,.Really John, please you got to let the boy have his moments too
@liyahbith9050
5 жыл бұрын
We obviously aren’t watching the same video. He talked a lot during the interview.
Love this guy,Love Snowfall💯✊🏾
I fucking love snowfall. great show
Why does Sway keep calling him Frankie 🙄it’s Franklin
I was born in the 80's so I don't remember much before crack. There were house parties with "reefer" and Keith Sweat then it doors started being closed and they're crack pipes with my family torn apart. Interesting story episode 3 got me fucked up!
@Kayodoms
7 жыл бұрын
damn man
John Singleton! Rest In Peace Phi!
snowfall is the best show out today shout out to John Singleton can't wait to the next episode see what happened with that dude
@RealTalk-lb1fg
7 жыл бұрын
I don't know about that Power is killing everything right now !
Snowfall💯 dope Tv show dope actors & dope actress waiting on season 3. Damson Idris is a dope actor.. But R.I.P J. SINGLETON 🙏 #lovethisshow
RIP JOHN SINGLETON
snowfall the best show on tv right now
Loved Season 1 now Power has a new kid on the block to fuck with it's called "SNOWFALL"
Man crack was a mutha, I was teen those 80's in Miami....we had the riots in '80 & then '83 & '84 then crack came cats my age was dealing & dying behind it. To this one of my friends make a joke about "we were the only ones not dealing crack in those times" it really seemed like it was the truth!!
Do u know how hard it is to change ur accent? Omg how did he do dat
Best show eva!
rest in heaven mr.singleton
Snowfall better than the drug it’s about.
Oh shit i didn’t knew this was a singleton series
Ooooo Ooooooo give it up to WC #SkipSkip
Wait wait wait. this dude is British hahaha. great show!
Funny moment between him and WC @04:00 ...turned him out, LMAO!!!!
R.I.P Nupe! 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿
He spoke the truth every block in the city had that neighbor and mist times she sold candy and sodas
Atlanta is still the best show on tv period!!
@Mark-wp9en
6 жыл бұрын
Ragedaddy 100%
Best TV show ever. Even better than the GoT. Shows how corrupt the CIA are they should be banned.
I like the series but John you know this is Freeway Rick Ross story. How are you going to say you had this mapped out in your head since you were 11 when no one knew the CIA was involved back then?
@RealTalk-lb1fg
7 жыл бұрын
Did John S violate The real Rick Ross ? I haven't seen this,.
@DJSnupey
7 жыл бұрын
It's obvious John S. stole his story and hired writers to produce the show. Snowfall is good but you can't help but think about Freeway Rick when you watch it. It's about a young black man from LA who gets a connect to front him kilos. This same connect is getting his kilos from the guerrillas who are selling them to a CIA agent for weapons to fight the military in jungle warfare. That's Freeway Rick Ross entire case.
@ofngrampz4510
6 жыл бұрын
This us not the rick ross story my g it is losly based on him as far as the c.i.a connection go but its not about freeway freeways story is nothing like this at all outside the cia
@shoedaye849
6 жыл бұрын
DJ Snupey I was thinking the same thing .... Freeway Rick story without a doubt
Can someone explain me the link between 2pac and the third ep? I'm not either american or english so they talk to fast for my ears! Thank you guys
@tylove7992
5 жыл бұрын
If I recall, John Singleton originally wrote a rape scene in "All Eyez on me", and it didn't happen, but there was one in episode 3 of Snowfall, so people assume he put it there.
Snowfall better than power, not quite as good as breaking bed yet, but only had 3 seasons so hopefully there will be at least another 2 more seasons so it could be up there with breaking bad. At the minute it's my best thing on tv and can't wait till season 4 to see what happens with Franklin, teddy. Louie and her partner. And whatever happened with Mel after she shot Franklin. I can't see Franklin telling police it was Mel who shot him after he killed her dad. Plus Andres partner is now working with Franklin which is interesting. I thought he was racist but at the end it showd he has 2 black kids. So there's so much going on and so much to look forward to. Also gutted teddy brother didn't last longer. And I hope the Mexican wrestler (can t remember his name) finds h us partner who had her family murdered. She was also in breaking bad as Jessie pinkmans partner along with her son Brock and ge r other son who killed combo
who was shaking this camera...mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
First time watching show I started today it’s hot rip me John singleton n damson idris is very serious sexy young actor black man rocks
John Singleton had to use that 2pac rape scene somewhere. Why not episode 3 of Snowfall?🤔🤣
@javfantv3722
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Salazar first thing I thought of when I seen that episode
@Krizzee
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Salazar John is fruity
@lancewhite3711
6 жыл бұрын
Kool Aid lol smh
I love the show but it's looks like to me that it a little bit of San Andreas if you played the game you can see it in the show and his name Franklin
@DQman
4 жыл бұрын
Franklin was gta5 not san andreas lol
the show is great. this last episode was the best so far. nigga got his money taken just to get it taken again by a rapist
but what about pac
You guys hating because he is British,British actors having been doing bits in American films and tv for a long time! Snowfall,stranger things,night of....to name a few shit GOT is like 99% British deal with it yanks!!!
that was so wrong that's freeway Ricky Ross life that he took and didn't pay that man drunk punk
@thelooker1756
4 жыл бұрын
Marvin Thomas according to Freeway it’s not he’s life 🤷🏽♀️
2002.. 😂
@BG_LONDON
3 жыл бұрын
Sampson should slap whoever told him crack came to England in 2002.. Dude just said a random date with no knowledge of it 😂😂😂
Wc seems like cool MF 😂
no he aint from ere
Crack came to England in 2002 HUH... if you don't know don't make up dates bruh.. I don't know when it first come, but it was there in the 80s
@rickjames2403
3 жыл бұрын
He was born in 94 so I guess he meant 2002 is when he first found out about it
@jaykay4775
3 жыл бұрын
@@rickjames2403 '91
@rickjames2403
3 жыл бұрын
@@jaykay4775 OK but my point still stands
@nishashawn2021
2 жыл бұрын
He basically said hes a 90 baby and don't know much about it, but remember it having a big impact in 02 in his specific neighborhood. Europe is big, just like crack here...it didn't flood ever city at the exact same time
This guy is the master of the US dialect. I was surprised to see he was English when I read his wiki. Time to ditch the English accent bro. Sounds feminine. Haha. Great actor though.
Hollywood has to stop hiring foreign actors to play African Americans in critical/historical roles such as this one. With unemployment being high among African American males in this country, couldn't John Singleton have hired an actor from LA to play a role that is much closer to home than a British actor??
@juiceplanet147
7 жыл бұрын
Casting is ran by mostly white people who failed at being actors..They kick American born black actors to the curb. Because its much cheaper to hire British black actors. American lead actors can make $250k per episode vs British actor making approx $100k per episode. If you are executive producer who you picking if both actors are excellent? I don't like it either but its business.
@DannyFrio
7 жыл бұрын
Albert Dennis this dude is a great actor and is perfect for this role. relax bud
@Comedytub3
7 жыл бұрын
+Albert Dennis Yeah, So no one complains when Forest Whitaker, Will Smith, Don Cheadle, Eddie Murphy & Arsenio, Morgan Freeman and other black American actors are playing Africans, but the minute someone else who's also black does goes to the states and lands a gig it's "whoa we need to talk about this"??? The problem isn't black British actors lol. The Hypocrisy. Like we don't already have enough reasons for black people to be divided and hate amongst each other. What if I dunno... all the other actors weren't as good for the role? Then what? Do you think he got hired specifically BECAUSE he's british? OR maybe it's the fact that black british actors have to be twice as good if they want American roles because they're not taken as seriously (because no one thinks of them as having the same experiences), in the same way that historically black people have had to be twice as good to get a job over a white person. You're crying over another BLACK person getting a role when you should be happy that this is an opportunity for there to be a unification amongst all black people. There's always been black british actors, but none of them ever got a role over Denzel, you know why? Because Denzel is A GREAT ACTOR. PERIOD. They're either good enough or not. Same way WHITE BRITISH actors like Daniel Day Lewis and Ewan Mcgregor and James McVoy and Hugh Laurie and Colin Firth can get American roles because no one can tell the difference. Black US actors either need to step up their game or quit complaining cos it's hypocritical as fuck. There's black people outside of the US and if you saw the bigger picture instead of focusing on reasons to separate you'd realise there's different black experiences and they don't take away anything from someone's ability to deliver a performance.
@Alwaysbetonblack1
7 жыл бұрын
you aint lying, same with that nigga from get out
@lovelylife405
7 жыл бұрын
Stop using the term African American to describe the Black people in America. African American is a person with African born parents that was born on the US.
They are hiring these british actors because they are much cheaper than american actors.
@Thabo616
7 жыл бұрын
Smooth Sounds Of Jazz is that true though...... I'm sure there are some unknown American actors who would work for the same amount as the unknown British actors
@DavieD609
5 жыл бұрын
No it’s because they do the work before the fame and not expect the fame to do the work.
@oluwaseunadegbenro1564
5 жыл бұрын
Its open audition and the best man gets the part
@MRAAng-on2jg
5 жыл бұрын
So loud and wrong. Obviously you don’t know shit about the industry
@rikayapartlow
4 жыл бұрын
Orrrr, they're just great actors.... 🙄 do you hear how effortlessly he glides between the two accents?? That takes SKILL. Goodness. I'll never understand people taking issue with this. He's a Black man playing a Black character. Wtf is the problem?