David Dastmalchian Talks Dust Bunny, Childhood Monsters & Coffin Chats
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Episode Description
Actor, writer, and monster kid David Dastmalchian joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to talk about his role as a badass hitman in Dust Bunny (opening in theaters Dec. 12), his own childhood nightmares, and chatting about mortality from inside a coffin.
In Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, David plays a mysterious hitman sent to take out Mads Mikkelsen’s character who is a high-value target in a fantastical criminal underworld. The job seems simple until he finds his mark seated with a 10-year-old girl, and suddenly the mission, the money, and his own buried history collide. David breaks down how Fuller pitched the role from the character’s point of view and why a monster in the bed might stop this killer cold.
Aaron and David dig into:
- David’s childhood monsters: a small Frankenstein’s creature stepping out of a closet door, and people who beg him for help before transforming into werewolves
- How those fears now live on in his comic Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter and other writing projects
- Bryan Fuller’s heightened “world at 11” tone — grounded emotion with stylized color, comedy, and horror (think John Wick meets Amélie with a touch of Spielberg, Dante, and Sondheim)
- Dust Bunny as a holiday release and why David sees it as a perfect family-sharing, big-screen fairy tale for spooky-minded folks of all ages
They also talk about Grave Conversations, David’s YouTube show where he interviews guests while lying together in coffins, and how those end-of-life, afterlife, and legacy discussions reveal a more vulnerable side of people like Bryan Fuller.
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