David Dastmalchian talks to NIN frontman Trent Reznor about Late Night with the Devil and turning their personal demons into art.
You know David Dastmalchian’s face, because it’s a hard one to forget. From the moment he appeared a, the 48-year-old actor and writer has been a go-to for filmmakers looking to inject a dose of instant unease into their movies. A regular in the films of—they’ve made three together—Dastmalchian has built a career out of playing outcasts, oddballs, and all-around strange dudes.
REZNOR: Hearing you tell that story, it’s remarkably similar to my own. The first time we were together, one-on-one, you immediately brought up sobriety. We’ve been sober about the same amount of time, and much like you, I had the same frustrations about time lost and wishing I could have condensed that period, which for me was about five years lost, into six months. But we play the hand we’re dealt.
DASTMALCHIAN: I had a couple months of prep, thank god. So every night, I’d watch old episodes of a guy named Don Lane, old episodes of Carson, Dick Cavett, Dave Letterman. And then I’d watch old footage of Morton Downey Jr. and Phil Donahue, you name it. I just wanted to feel this energy and allow it to penetrate my subconscious.
REZNOR: I’ve always wondered, as an actor, let’s say when you’re in a movie like this, you’re carrying it, the shoot’s over, you head home—is it pins and needles wondering what the cut’s going to show up like? There’s so much that gets done after the camera stops rolling, so I’ve always wondered that, as a control freak myself.REZNOR: Not to answer my own question, but I’ve learned this a little bit in scoring, where I’m not the captain of the ship.
, which I was unfamiliar with until I watched it yesterday in the midst of thinking that I was going to then be productive the rest of the day, which I was not.REZNOR: I got punched in the gut, so bravo on that. I was sitting in my office with tears in my eyes in the middle of the afternoon. REZNOR: For me, I knew I was a musician and I knew I wanted to have this kind of career, and it felt like the only thing I cared about. But the question I was putting off was, what if I’m not a great writer? So I played in other people’s bands and wasted time. But when I finally sat down and said, I’m going to see what I actually have to say, the first experiments were terrible, because it was me pretending I was somebody else.
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