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What Scares David Dastmalchian
The Late Night With the Devil star is no stranger to facing demons.
Since his film debut as a paranoid schizophrenic on the Joker’s payroll in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Dastmalchian has made the most of minor roles to bring a haunted humanity to one lost soul after another: a disturbed murder suspect in Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, a self-loathing supervillain in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, a guilt-ridden mental patient in Rob Savage’s The Boogeyman. A box-office hit that scored distributor IFC’s largest opening weekend ever, Late Night With the Devil puts Dastmalchian front and center in a rare leading role, allowing him to turn out a tour de force performance of outsize charisma and inwardly raging chaos. Dastmalchian, a horror nerd who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, is calling from his home office, where he’s surrounded by a magazine rack stuffed with vintage Creepy comics; signed Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, and Boris Karloff prints; and a framed 1971 issue of Look with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey on the cover gripping a human skull.
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