Paste talked to veteran character actor David Dastmalchian about taking the lead in his new horror film Late Night with the Devil.
, which premiered at SXSW 2023 to rapturous applause, has opened in theaters as a box office hit before heading to streaming April 19 on Shudder, and he takes a role uncommon in his career so far: The lead, Jack Delroy, a 1970s late night host about to make a truly disastrous judgment call during a Halloween live taping.
That opens up one of the things I want to talk about: I’m with Colin and Cameron. I think that they won the lottery. They and Lee Pickford got the right leading man. It’s nice seeing you in supporting parts, whether it’s, but it’s great seeing you at the center of this. I see Jack as a composite of other characters you’ve played. I wondered if the more you got into it and the more production went on, if you started to bring those characters into Jack.
So I actually did try and play a lot of what was going on behind the scenes as just David. What else do I have? I just have to rely on that, you know? To get to the heart of that, then, while you’re performing Jack during production, do you keep that thought in mind, that wish of being able to just be open about what is going on for him? About what is really at stake for him?
When you’re building a character, it starts with just a couple pieces of fabric and then hopefully a strong foundation of materials, which are the script and the director’s vision.
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