Who is David Dastmalchian? Damned if I can ever do the man justice but let’s give it a go. In no particular order…
He’s an actor who made his screen debut as one of the Joker’s henchmen in The Dark Knight, a furious Harvey Dent pressing a gun against his forehead as he demands the location of Rachel Dawes. Dastmalchian collaborated with Christopher Nolan again on Oppenheimer, and his extensive filmography includes three Denis Villeneuve films and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. His latest role is the villainous M. Bison in Street Fighter, a megalomaniac dictator memorably portrayed in the 1994 movie by his hero Raúl Juliá.
He’s the husband of the artist Evelyn Leigh and father of two. He turned 51 in July.
He’s someone who has been searching for answers, or at least asking questions, ever since he was a kid lying awake at night in his bedroom, staring into the darkness that seemed to stretch into eternity, simultaneously terrified and fascinated by what might be hiding there.
He’s a writer. His debut graphic novel Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter involves an alcoholic TV horror host who hunts monsters, reluctantly. His latest work Through was inspired by Henry Darger, a janitor who created a trove of artwork over multiple decades that he never showed to anybody, including a 15,000-page novel called In the Realms of the Unreal that is assumed to be the longest work of fiction ever written.
The house I lived in had a lot of conflict and tension, but there was also a ton of love
He hosts the YouTube series Grave Conversations where he interviews various celebrity friends while lying in an open coffin. The concept was his idea.
He’s an abstinent addict who spent much of his twenties strung out on heroin. Living in his car, stealing and shoplifting to scrounge together the eighty bucks that would fund his daily fix. Eventually he was institutionalised. He hasn’t used for 24 years. The darkness will always be there, hiding in the corners. So will the light.
He’s an optimist. He loves people, loves being alive – especially considering how hard he once tried not to be. He may wrestle with what he describes as “the beautiful curse of consciousness” but make no mistake, he never loses sight of the beauty.
He’s an interviewer’s dream: articulate, candid, witty. He doesn’t answer so much as unspool. The day we spoke, he wore black nail polish and a Vincent Price T-shirt. It seemed an obvious jump-off point…
SM I’m guessing Vincent Price is a hero of yours?
DD One of my heroes, for sure. Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Lon Chaney, John Cazale, Charlize Theron, Meryl Streep, Gena Rowlands.
SM I love Christopher Lee…
DD When I think about a role – especially like M. Bison, or if, God willing, someday somebody gives me an opportunity to portray Dracula or a Dracula-adjacent character – it’s really hard not to imagine the countenance which Christopher Lee brought to those figures.
SM Have you read his autobiography?
DD I want to read it! I have a crazy stack. I love biographies and autobiographies, and I've been reading a ton about Tod Browning and Lon Chaney because I'm trying to make a movie about those two. When I'm not reading those, I've been reading biographies about Anton LaVey. But Christopher Lee is on my docket – that's a book I absolutely have to read.
SM He seemed like a very charming man. Speaking of remarkable people, I went on a deep dive earlier about Henry Darger…
DD: Here's the thing about Darger that really struck me. When I was a little boy, I was raised in a house that, like all houses, was the full spectrum. It's so easy for us to say, ‘I had a hard childhood,’ or ‘I had a lovely childhood.’ Most people I know had the full spectrum. I had some really hard things that were a part of my childhood. The house I lived in had a lot of conflict and tension, but there was also a ton of love and connection.
I was raised in a very religious community and upbringing where movies – especially things to do with horror – were really frowned upon. When I was a little boy, I used to go into my room completely alone, with no audience, and do my Muppet performances for myself: thinking about being Kermit the Frog or singing 'Rainbow Connection'. I would build these dioramas of haunted castles, torture dungeons, and all these things I was fascinated with as a little boy. I’d get old shoe boxes, toilet paper rolls, glue, and markers, and create these things in secret.
I started to wonder: is there anything I make or create anymore that is just for me
Then I got bit by the theatre bug when I got a little older and started to become very serious about the craft of acting, writing, and storytelling. I developed this relationship that is so important, which is with the audience. Performing as an actor in live theatre is its own form of communication and language that is thousands of years old. It means a lot to me, but it's for the benefit of others. It's work I do for the benefit of others. Same with the writing I do – unless it's my own private journaling or mental health work, it's all for the benefit of others: comic book writing, screenwriting, playwriting, acting.
I started to wonder: is there anything I make or create anymore that is just for me, that I don't share and have no intention of ever sharing with anyone? Then I stumbled upon the mythology and work of Henry Darger. Seeing it up close, this man lived in complete seclusion his whole life making all this amazing work, never showing it to a single solitary soul.
I was always fascinated with Georg Büchner, who was an accountant, but in private he wrote a play called Woyzeck, which was adapted into a film starring Klaus Kinski. Someone found it in an attic after he died. It was all out of order; no one really knows the actual order because the pages weren't numbered. Those people fascinate me. I think often about Darger and that kind of secrecy with your ideas, and what alchemy it creates. Obviously it was a huge inspiration for me in writing books like Count Crowley, but even just as an artist, I think about it often.
SM: I ordered Count Crowley but Amazon messed up the delivery! It was meant to arrive yesterday…
DD Thank you for trying, it means a lot. I'm so proud of Count Crowley. It's one of those ideas I've been kicking around since I was probably 12 years old. I grew up in Kansas with the best horror host in the Midwest at that time, named Crematia Mortem. She was my first crush. She was so cool, and she would play all the scary movies I wasn't allowed to watch. I would sneak downstairs and watch her show.
I thought: how cool would it be if there was a horror host who secretly had another mission as a monster hunter? That was it. Pretty simple. Then I grew up and became an adult who struggles with alcoholism and addiction. I think our commercialised, capitalised form of news is completely broken. Looking at the way politicians try to cannibalise news that goes against what they want people to believe, I realised, ‘Oh my God, this story has so much more meaning for me now.’ It makes it so much more fun to write because I actually have stuff I care about. I can't express my rage at the state of things other than through protest, volunteering, voting, or writing.
SM Shall we discuss Street Fighter? M. Bison was played by Raúl Juliá, who made him one of the great villains of trashy action films. Were you at all daunted to follow such an iconic performance?
DD Incredibly. The performance Raúl Juliá was able to evoke with his creation of M. Bison is something no one who has seen that movie can forget. He left such an impression upon the hearts and minds of the audience.
As soon as I found out Kitao Sakurai wanted me to be his M. Bison, I had three major questions. One: how much time do we have? Because I don't look anything like the Bison I know from the game. He explained to me why I don't need to, because it's part of the plot.
Secondly: this game has 40 years' worth of diehard, religious fans. I've stepped into the realms of very beloved IPs: superheroes, manga, anime, and animation. It's always terrifying because I'm a fan myself. You need to know that when you take on a role like this, you're not going to make everybody happy. In fact, sometimes you're going to make many people unhappy, and you can't allow that fear to guide your performance. Otherwise, you're going to impede your instincts and your ability to create.
The third thing that came to my brain was: holy shit, Raúl Juliá is not only one of the great actors of 20th-century cinema, he's one of my favourite actors. He's a hero to me. I would get into my trailer, get into my costume, play my music, and listen to specific songs to get into the mindset of Bison. Then, as I headed out for the day, I would think about Raúl and ask for his blessing on my performance.
SM It was his final role as well.
DD He was not well when he was filming, and you would never know. He crackles with electricity, charisma, and power. He does exactly what Kitao and I wanted to do: he's compelling, charismatic, charming, engaging, and terrifying all at the same time.
I have always loved villains and misunderstood characters. It's so boring when you get a big bad guy, a final boss in a big costume surrounded by soldiers in matching uniforms who just rush into battle to get kicked in the ass and die. Why are all these people surrounding him? Why do they believe in this? Why would they be willing to stand at attention while he goes on and on?
We dug in and thought about what makes a dictator or a cult leader work. What are the personality elements that Idi Amin, David Koresh, Jim Jones, or Mussolini possessed that convinced people to follow them into sudden or sure death? Raúl did that in his performance. He's so compelling and charismatic, I would have followed him anywhere he wanted to go.
SM What characteristics did you pick up on from those figures?
DD The charisma, the charm, and the sense of playfulness and humour. There's a twinkle in the eye. If all you're doing is screaming at people and trying to be scary, or if you've got some misguided illusion of machismo that you think you need to represent in some weird alpha dominance bullshit, it doesn't work.
Look at the psychos who have been able to get massive movements around them: they have a strong idea, and they convince their followers that they have been victimised or wronged, and that they have the answer for how those followers can finally feel seen, loved, appreciated, and powerful. People who have been disenfranchised and miseducated about the reasons why can be manipulated into believing other groups of people are their real enemies – when in actuality, the person leading them is their enemy, taking full advantage of them.
You don't do that by paying people, or by scaring and screaming at them. You do it by getting them to love you and believe in the mission. Then you can scare them. Then you can be that psychotic, narcissistic, abusive parent that keeps them begging for your approval and love, holding that over them like a puppet master. But you have to imbue it with personality, charisma, and love. You see it in the twinkle in Raúl's eye when he delivers some of his most iconic lines.
SM Do you get to deliver any of those iconic lines? “For me, it was Tuesday…”
DD You're going to have to go and see the film! I will say, homage is wonderful if you're a collector, an impressionist, or doing a form of background entertainment for people to enjoy dinner to. But it's boring in storytelling. When I go see a movie, I don't need it to just be an homage to 1980s-era Spielberg. He made those movies; they're great. We don't need to try and remake that. Homage alone isn't going to keep people engaged and captivated.
SM Well your debut film, The Dark Knight, obviously featured Heath Ledger as the Joker. Everyone said you can’t follow Jack Nicholson’s Joker, and then Heath did a better one. Certainly a different one.
DD He did a better one. I love what Jack Nicholson did with the Joker – to me, as a kid, that was always the Joker, as was Cesar Romero's Joker and Mark Hamill's voice in the animated series. Jack Nicholson was the ultimate manifestation of the Clown Prince of Crime to me because he was my favourite character, and Batman was the comic I read a ton as a kid. It was the first comic, when I was in fifth or sixth grade, where I genuinely got emotionally choked up and invested, when Joker kills Robin in A Death in the Family. I always thought what Jack Nicholson did was the mould.
When they announced Heath Ledger was going to play the Joker, I thought, ‘That is ridiculous. That is a terrible idea. I don't see it at all.’ I couldn't wrap my head around it. Then I got cast in my first feature film as a henchman to my favourite character, in a film directed by one of my favourite directors of all time, shot in Chicago where I was living in a tiny apartment I could barely afford.
I went to work on my first day, saw Heath Ledger becoming the Joker, and knew I was in the presence of something incredibly significant. It was illuminated by the fact that I was a few blocks away from the comic shop where I used to spend my money, passing an alley where I had slept in my car when I didn't have a place to stay, playing a role attached to the character I cared most about. To this day, I don't think anyone has ever encapsulated the character as perfectly as he did.
I said to Heath, ‘When I heard you were going to play the Joker, I thought it was a terrible idea.
SM Did you tell him about your initial misgivings?
DD You know what I said to him when I met him? I was so nervous, and he was so chill. The two of us were standing there making small talk, and I instantly got the sense that he was a safe space to be around. I was so scared and nervous, surrounded by a thousand extras doing a massive sequence in downtown Chicago, having never been on a film set before.
I said to him, ‘When I heard you were going to play the Joker, I thought it was a terrible idea.’ He laughed so hard and said, ‘Me too!’ I asked, ‘How's it going?’ and he said, ‘I'm having the best time of my life.’ He was so happy. He would ride his skateboard around set. He wasn't staying strictly in character between takes – he was just in makeup and costume. We had a lot of laughs. He really loved music, and he turned me on to a lot of bands I still love to this day. We talked about music venues in Chicago, and when it was time for him to do a scene, he could just go into this amazing place. It was fascinating.
The last time I saw him was at our wrap party in Chicago. I got to give him a hug, and he said, ‘When you're in London, hit me up. You can always stay at my place.’ He barely knew me, but he had such a thoughtful, sweet, generous spirit. When I went home from that experience, I remember saying to someone very close to me, ‘I feel like I was just in the presence of James Dean.’ Little did I know he would pass away young as well. He was a legend – bigger than life, and a beautiful, beautiful soul. What he did was so terrifying, hilarious, dark, grim, and psychotic. He is the mould to me.
SM If you were offered the Joker, would you take it?
DD Yes.
SM Is it your dream role?
DD [Smiles in a manner that strongly implies the affirmative.] I don’t know.
SM I love this quote from an interview you did with Trent Reznor: ‘I've been supremely terrified and yet uncontrollably drawn to the shadowy corner of the room.’ Where does that come from?
DD It comes from being a little boy in an attic room, being told, ‘We have the answers. On Sundays you go to this place, you worship this way, you say these words, and when you die, there's an infinite place you get to go if you're on the right team. But if you're not, or if you piss Him off, you're going to get thrown into a pit for eternity to suffer.’ What a fucked-up thing to say to a seven- or eight-year-old child!
If you have my brain as a seven- or eight-year-old, you sit up all night thinking, ‘Well, if I go to the place that isn't burning, what am I going to do? Forever seems like such a long time.’ I started getting these crazy thoughts about the concept of infinity. Insomnia was always a problem for me. Late at night, in that weird place at 3am, my imagination would go wild. I’d think I heard things coming from my closet, or weird voices downstairs in a creaky old house, and the darkness in my room seemed to stretch on for infinity. The corners would stretch forever, and I would lay there in abject horror of the unknown.
I think that's where some of it started – not to mention the inconsistency of adults who were having their own problems regulating their emotional states, and being in a society predicated on telling you that you don't fit in, but you will if you buy this product, drive this car, or worship this thing. We're constantly inundated with notions that we aren't enough, and that the only way to achieve belonging is by consuming things. It's a weird thing to do to little minds.
At the same time, I think it's a beautiful life. I love this world, and I love humans. They're tragically dysfunctional creatures, but they're my species. There's something I need to learn from people, and I'm trying to figure that out. As scary as that dark place is to me, I ultimately want to take my flashlight and go explore it.
Am I an abstinent addict? A hundred percent. It's been 24 years since I stuck a needle in my arm
SM It’s like that story about the gambler playing in a rigged card game – he knows it’s rigged but it’s the only game in town. Same with life – it’s rigged and you're bound to lose everything, but it's the only game in town.
DD This is what we've got. This is the shot we're given, the mortal coil we were fashioned within. My hope for people is that they can have enough perspective and experience enough art, love, friendship, good food, travel, education, and heartbreak to remember that they're not alone.
That's the big trick of the universe – this idea that we're alone in this thing, when we're not. When great storytelling is firing on all cylinders – whether it's an action movie, a sci-fi epic, a drama, or a classic – you connect with it and think, ‘That's an authentic feeling. I know what that feels like.’ Then you feel a little less alone. That's a beautiful thing.
SM I really respect how so much of your work, from Animals to Through, grapples with addiction and your own demons. Instead of putting that stuff in a box – that was then, this is now – you work through it to help other people.
DD The truth is: that was now, and this is still now. Am I an abstinent addict? A hundred percent. It's been 24 years since I stuck a needle in my arm, and 24 years since I got messed up on drugs or alcohol. But have I gotten messed up on love, work, late-night snacks, or food? You name it. I can find anything to try and escape the discomfort of feelings I don't want to feel. Whether it's something you stick in your mouth, your veins, or your head, there are so many ways.
I don't have any answers, other than that there is hope. I live my life with no expectation and oodles of hope, because it seems consistent enough that no matter how bad I feel or how shitty a thing happens, it gets better. There are paths to that. I'm still wrestling with the why and the how of it all. When I'm writing, acting, or telling stories, in my subconscious I'm still wrestling with these ideas.
Luckily, I have the miracle of abstinence right now, because trying to wrestle with those ideas while in active addiction is a one-way path back to being institutionalised or dying. At this age, a relapse – which I've certainly been tempted with – would probably mean certain death, because the prevalence of new substances in narcotics makes it essentially suicide.
It's so hard to reach someone when they're at the bottom of their addiction, alcoholism, or suicidal tendencies
SM How did you manage to get clean?
DD A lot of factors: the kindness of strangers, a deep willingness, and being around the right people at the right time. I discovered incredible organisations that are completely free, where you can go to meetings or log in on Zoom. You find rooms full of people sharing their experience, strength, and hope, talking about how they've been able to stay clean. The support and love of family and friends, plus luck.
Being delivered from the desire to get messed up feels like a miracle to me, because scientifically it's so hard once your body adapts to dependency. Brain chemistry adapts. The problem is it's a torture device: each time you go up, the high is a little bit less, and each time you come down, the low is a little bit lower. Why does that malfunction exist in our programming?
When we're little kids, we experience difficult feelings that feel like we're going to die. Your mum ignores you when your feelings are hurt, your dad yells at you because you broke something and you feel scared, or you get lost at the mall and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. Or something deeply traumatic happens: a loved one dies, you're in a car accident, or you get harmed.
Those wounds stick to us. If we don't learn coping mechanisms and tools to parent ourselves and understand that we're going to be okay, we become so afraid of feeling that way that we'll do anything not to feel it – even if it costs us all our money, jobs, friends, and relationships.
SM I lost a friend last year to alcoholism. Why some people can stop, and others can’t – I find it fascinating. Maybe that’s not the right word…
DD It's okay to find it fascinating. It can be fascinating, horrifying, depressing, overwhelming, and intriguing all at once. I find it fascinating that there are people struggling with such extreme forms of mental illness that sitting here having a cogent conversation would take all the energy in their body and soul. Why does that happen?
I've struggled with suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in my life. It's so hard to reach someone when they're at the bottom of their addiction, alcoholism, or suicidal tendencies. Why do humans sometimes slip so far that it feels like we can't reach out and grab them? The beautiful curse of consciousness is that I don't know.
At 51 years of age, there are elements in my personal life that I never saw coming, that fucking suck. I watch things happen and realise I have no control over them, and I just have to let things happen the way they're meant to happen. People get sick, people change, people leave. But do I want it any other way? I don't know. I write versions of things I wish could happen, but this is the shot we've got.
SM It’s easy to fixate on the parallel versions of yourself who got everything right. Nobody thinks about all the versions who totally screwed up…
DD Thinking about parallel versions helps me stay grateful. When I'm walking through a city and see a person who is clearly struggling mentally on the street – someone people dismiss as ‘just a drunk’ or ‘just a junkie’ – I remember there are deep mental health issues there, and they've been lost and forgotten.
Every time I see a person in that situation, I think: that could have so easily been me. It was me at one point. I remember being in different cities, begging people for cigarette butts and change just to scrounge together ten dollars for a bag, not eating, and shoplifting everything I could get my hands on.
SM Was this while you were in drama school?
DD During drama school is when I developed my habit for heroin. By my sophomore year at The Theatre School at DePaul University, I was using heroin. By the time I graduated, I had a daily habit of $60 to $80 a day that I was funnelling through stealing, boosting, and lying. I believed I could be like the icons of literature and music who had been junkies their whole careers. I thought, ‘Using drugs in the morning cures my depression and anxiety, and makes me feel level.’
I came out of college with a very promising future, but almost immediately the bottom fell out. I lived pretty much as a homeless, vagrant junkie for several years. I nearly died a couple of times and ended up institutionalised. Miraculously, after a number of tries, I started to move out of that victimhood mentality.
The disease of addiction tells you that you're entitled to use because it helps you avoid feelings you don't want to feel. It tells you it's because other people have done wrong things to you, or because the world has been unfair. It's very hard to get out of that mindset – not just for addicts, but for anyone walking through this world who gets wounded.
It's hard not to turn that into a form of justified self-pity so you can behave how you feel entitled to behave. It's very hard to look at the pain of your circumstances and ask, ‘What was my part in it?’ That's the part of the equation most people leave out until they start gaining consciousness. Even if you were completely blameless, carrying that resentment around is like carrying an anchor – it doesn't serve you in any way.
I've been that guy who felt totally justified in stealing his girlfriend's chequebook or robbing a store
SM And you worked as a commercial fisherman at one point?
DD True story! Right before the drug addiction really took off with opiates, I took a break after my freshman year of college. I had a great scholarship to DePaul, but I didn't have money for rent and food. I asked for a break from school and went to Alaska. I took a bus to Seattle, lived in a homeless shelter in a park while trying to get a job on a fishing boat, and eventually got one. I made enough money to come back and finish school, but right when I got back is when the opiate addiction really kicked off.
When I was trying to get clean years later, I actually went back to Alaska and did one more tour on the boats, thinking that getting out to sea would get me away from it all. But there are no geographical fixes for addiction. I’d be on those boats for a month at a time with hardcore junkies and alcoholics. Even if they stayed straight for 30 days at sea, it just made their high that much stronger when they got back to shore. They’d blow all their money, show back up a month later, and repeat the vicious cycle.
SM I know you were doing Othello when you got cast in The Dark Knight. Playing Iago?
DD John Judd – one of my favourite actors of all time – was playing Iago. I was playing Montano, the Governor of Cyprus. But I would love to play Iago. I hope somebody gives me a chance to play Iago someday.
SM ‘I am not what I am.’ The line makes me think of how addicts hide themselves.
DD Iago feels so victimised. From Iago's point of view, Othello and the entire military have completely fucked him over. He doesn't just find splendour in the suffering of others – he feels completely justified because he sees himself as the victim. Look at hardcore racists or nationalist skinheads beating up immigrants: they will tell you they are the victims. They aren't sitting there thinking, ‘Let's mess with people because it's fun.’
They have been so manipulated by evil power structures that they genuinely believe they are the victims. That's how you get a cult or extremist movements. It's how M. Bison got Shadaloo going, and how Iago incited murder. They feel, ‘Poor me, life has been so unfair.’ I would love to bring that to life as an actor because I get it. I've been that guy who felt totally justified in stealing his girlfriend's chequebook or robbing a store because I felt the world had been unfair to me.
SM Over the last 15 years, you’ve worked with Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and James Gunn. What’s your secret?
DD I love what I do, and I take a job that is quite silly very, very seriously. I've also been very lucky. There are people with immensely greater talent, range, better looks, more cinematic physiques, and more interesting voices than I have, who just didn't happen to be where I was at the moment someone saw me and decided to cast me.
I created opportunity for myself because I kept showing up, no matter how many times I was told no. I was rejected hundreds of times as an actor, and my feelings were crushed when I’d get close to a role I was excited about and not get it. But I kept picking myself up and walking into the room. I'm a nerd who loves this stuff so much, and I feel very grateful. Why brilliant people like that keep casting me, I don't know.
SM Well, you have a phenomenally cinematic face. Do you get recognised by people who can't quite place you?
DD That's my favourite compliment: when people say, ‘Oh my God, I love you, but I don't know where from!’ I want to be Lon Chaney. I always wanted the anonymity of Lon Chaney, who could walk down the street without people knowing who he was, but if you mentioned he played the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera or Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, people would lose their minds. I love transformative actors like that.
Nowadays, I've been in enough major releases – like One Piece, Dexter, The Suicide Squad, and Dune – that it gets a little trickier. It can be a little sad when I'm with my kids at the park or the mall and just want to enjoy time together. Ninety-nine percent of people are insanely respectful and just want to say they like your work, but I do miss the anonymity sometimes.
It can also be tricky with interpersonal relationships. I have an incredible core group of friends whom I love very much. At one point, someone who was really mad at me said, ‘Those friends only like you because you're getting famous.’ It really hurt me deeply, and it's a resentment I've had to work to let go of. Hearing that made me think a lot, but I realised very quickly that it's just not true.
Learn to really listen and figure out the difference between instinct and fear
The people who are close to me just love me for who I am. Meeting new people can sometimes feel weird because you wonder, ‘Do they want access to Hollywood, or do they genuinely just think I'm an interesting person to hang out with?’
If there's one thing I want to leave readers with, it's this: spend time nurturing and getting to know yourself. Be the parent to yourself that you wish you could have had. Learn to really listen and figure out the difference between instinct and fear. Learn to listen to your instinct, and learn how to soothe your fear and move through it.
Oftentimes I've allowed my fear to masquerade as instinct, keeping me from taking risks or connecting with people to protect myself from getting hurt. I've spent a lot of time in the last few years trying to tune in to that inner voice and learn the difference between the part of me that is terrified and the part of me that has strong intuition.
SM What creative ambitions remain unfulfilled?
DD In the next 10 years, I really hope to travel to more corners of the world with my kids. I love travelling with my son and daughter so much – they make me a much better human being. I would love to get much better at Magic: The Gathering.
I would love to be back on stage with a significant opportunity to dive into theatrical work. I would love to be part of the movement that brings horror and genre into the conversation that recognises it as a much more important part of cinema than it's been given credit for in the past.
I would really love to find myself holding a lightsaber forged in the alloys of the dark side, and I'd love the opportunity to return to comic book adaptations on film. Plus, my other two big dreams: the Muppets and James Bond. I want to kill Bond. I want to be the villain that finally kills James Bond!
SM That happened in No Time to Die and everyone hated it!
DD But he's coming back somehow! Okay, how about this: I'll be the one who takes Bond's foot. Q can come up with a mechanical foot for Bond that shoots lasers out of the toes.
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