![]() So, yeah, it was just like, 'Wow! Like, I'm never going to get to speak in this accent anymore. So, it was bittersweet because we know we're going to see each other anyway."īut, at the same time, we're not getting to work with each other until whatever comes next. We have relationships outside of filming. I was tearing up a lot just seeing all the crew's faces, you know? I guess the biggest emotion was that this really is a family show. Indeed, it's almost time to say good bye to his character. The show offers a look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in LA during the beginning of the 1980s.ĭamson Idris aka Franklin Saint was emotional on the red-carpet Wednesday as he reflected on his last day on set. The final season of "Snowfall" hits screens in the U.S. You can watch all four seasons of Snowfall with a premium subscription on Hulu.The cast of FX TV series "Snowfall" gathered at the Ted Mann Theater in Los Angeles Wednesday night (Feb. Snowfall's Franklin Saint isn't a real person, but enough truth went into the character to make him feel real to audiences. "I studied them for the accent, and incorporated it and found it myself and with the character of Franklin." Jordan," Idris told Interview magazine in June 2017. "My hero is Denzel Washington, and then I looked at someone around a similar age to me who was American who is also an idol, Michael B. Meanwhile, the actor who plays Franklin, Damson Idris, looked to specific American actors when crafting Franklin's accent, because Idris himself is British. The surname Saint was intended as "dramatic irony," considering the direction Franklin's story goes. ![]() ![]() While Franklin may not be inspired by or based on a real person, Singleton did reveal that his name was borrowed from another fictional character: the only Black character from Peanuts. Franklin seems to want a life as dissimilar to the one he has as possible, and sees dealing as a way out. He starts off dealing weed to rich kids at school, but graduates to selling crack cocaine for the mob. But Franklin's trajectory is very different. There may be touches of Singleton's experiences to add to the realism of the series, with The Hollywood Reporter writing that Singleton referred to Franklin's story as "kind of like my formative years" at an ATX Festival panel for the show. I remember ice cream trucks and you realize the ice cream truck isn't selling ice cream, they're selling crack." Everyone was changed by the crack problem in my neighborhood. "It was the first time I went on the 405 freeway. "My life changed when I went to school in the Valley, when I was in eighth grade," Singleton told The Los Angeles Times in 2017. And while Franklin's life diverges vastly from that of series creator John Singleton, one detail of Singleton's life did make it into Franklin's as well: both commuted out of the South Central neighborhoods they grew up in to attend school in the Valley, which gave them a different perspective. Over the past four seasons, the show has used fictional characters to explore real events. But that doesn't mean Snowfall is without factual basis. ![]() As Franklin gets pulled deeper into the world of dealing, so does the audience, leaving many wondering if the Snowfall character is also a real person. Described as a "young street entrepreneur on a quest for power," Franklin gives the show one of its windows into the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. In Season 1 of Snowfall on FX, 19-year-old Franklin Saint’s ambition gets him into a dangerous situation. ![]()
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