David Dastmalchian appears on my laptop screen, smiling and apologetic. He's a little late coming directly from a string of interviews, among which I am the last. What will follow is, Dastmalchian tells me, a well-earned nap before he picks up another night shoot that's running from 5PM to 5AM.
I first noticed Dastmalchian more than a dozen years ago when he appeared as a psychotic, fake Gotham City cop in Christopher Nolan's seminal 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. It was such a true and gripping performance that I wondered if Nolan had spirited the actor out of a "facility" on a day pass for his turn as the off-kilter assassin.
