Last spring, he starred in Benjamin Oliver’s "Life After Leukemia," a short film shot during the 48-Hour Film Project. In his first-and-only acting role, Sampson played a former child star turned gutter-sleeping bum. For the part, he wet himself on camera. “I wasn’t playing somebody so far from myself,” he says, laughing at the fact he won Best Actor out of all the Boston submissions. “I’ve always hung out with derelict people. It wasn’t me pretending to be in France in 1920, it was me, like really drunk and uninhibited.”
Sampson decided that as of this January he wanted to be primarily a “film guy.” So after co-founding Devilfish, he plans to dangle the completed Shoot the Moon video in front of investors. Funding or not, he’s still really enamored of the directorial process. “You can sculpt an object. But if you can sculpt an environment, it’s like ‘Whoa, oh my God, look at this.’”
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