![]() That's the way, as a performer, you want it to work on a TV show. ![]() And him actually finding what he always wanted, which was freedom.Īll the star players, we were very involved with the bible and where our characters were going to end. But we thought ending where it began, right there on that street with those palm trees, was more poetic. He's taken a swig of his drink, and then goes high, and you see all these tents, and it reveals that he's now on Skid Row. There was an alternative where it was going to end with a drone shot from Franklin. But Skid Row was always something that floated in the air. There were so many ways to show the effects of him losing his soul. Like, maybe he completely loses his mind and he's in a loony bin. Me and Dave would talk extensively about how it was going to end. (In the final scene, set in 1990, drunk Franklin walks by a bespectacled South Central kid filming a movie in the hood and yells, in an ad-lib Idris came up with, “Y’all ain’t gon win no Oscar!” GQ spoke to him about Franklin’s point of no return, the alternate endings to Snowfall that were considered, and coming up with some of the final season’s best lines off the cuff.Īnd were you a part of those conversations with showrunner Dave Andron-or even going back to Singleton, when he was still with us-about how the show might end? But Idris tells GQ he’s just happy that above all else, he and the show’s creative team delivered an ending that he’s certain Singleton would be proud of. In a just world, he’d have at least three Emmy nominations by now. Idris’s magnetic performance as Franklin, who transforms from an eager kid to dead-eyed capitalist, powered the show from when it found its footing in season three and even through shakier seasons like five. He becomes a homeless alcoholic, much like the absentee father he spent most of his life hating, stumbling like a ghost around the same neighborhoods he used to run. ![]() In the end, Saint doesn’t die or go to jail-but he is left completely alone, with the family members he dragged into his criminal organization dead (his uncle Jerome, played by Amin Joseph), incarcerated (his mother, Cissy, played by Michael Hyatt), or in the wind, like his best friend Leon (Isaiah John), who moves to Ghana. The depths that Franklin sinks in search of his money chart his final descent into true antiherodom. That relationship soured going into the show’s sixth and final season, when Franklin’s attempt to quit prompts Teddy to rob him of his fortune. We see Franklin graduate from selling weed to becoming the biggest crack dealer in the country as he partners with Teddy, a government operative flooding the streets with drugs to bankroll the CIA’s black ops. The FX drama, which was one of the late director John Singleton’s last projects (he died in 2019), is a retelling of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles and the CIA’s-fictional-involvement in it. Over six seasons, we’ve seen his protagonist Franklin Saint go from a determined South Central neighborhood kid eager to take his family out of poverty to a cold-blooded multi-millionaire drug-dealer. Damson Idris has been trying to prepare viewers for a tragic end to Snowfall for years.
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