Snowfall's Damson Idris takes seriously his new role as a producer on the show

The Hollywood Reporter

When Idris first saw his name listed next to his new title, “I was like, Oh. My. God. Wow. I’m going to wear suits to set every day now!” he jokes to The Hollywood Reporter. But Snowfall executive producer and writer Walter Mosley recounts a particularly “emotional” meeting among Snowfall higher-ups when “tough decisions” had to be made -- and Idris stepped up. “Damson came in and said, ‘Look, we have to do what’s right. And that’s it.’ Everything evened out after that,” says Mosley. “Because number one on the call list says we’ve got to do what’s right. So…. OK. And I could tell that he understood that he needed to do that, regardless of how he felt.” As for Snowfall itself, Idris says: “I think (Snowfall) gets compared to the likes of The Wire, or The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, because you are able to empathize with the characters. And you are able to see drug abuse in a completely different way than you might have seen it before.… You learn something from it while being entertained.”