‘Swarm’ Co-Creator Janine Nabers Touts Dominique Fishback’s Performance “Of The Ages” In Prime Video’s Satirical Horror-Comedy – Contenders TV
15.04.2023 - 18:31
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Although Dominique Fishback was initially approached for a supporting role in Prime Video’s darkly comedic horror-comedy Swarm, created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, she knew upon reading the script that she was destined to play its lead character, Dre.
Coming off of projects like Judas and the Black Messiah and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, she said today during a panel for Deadline’s Contenders TV, moderated by Destiny Jackson, she was looking for a project that was going to “excite” and “challenge” her. She recalled telling Glover during one phone conversation: “I don’t want to even catch up to my own self as an actor. I don’t even want to know what I’m going to do next. I want the opportunity to stretch beyond what I’ve been used to, what I’ve been used to being presented to play in the past.”
But after landing the part, requiring her to go to dark places, Fishback soon found herself wondering, “What did I do? Why did I do this?”
The show, which bowed on Prime Video on March 17, has Fishback playing Dre, a diehard fan of the world’s biggest pop star — based, Nabers has said, on Beyoncé — whose obsession takes a dark turn.
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It was a role that would require the actress to “remove [her] own fears.” And in order to do so, she’d make a request of production. “I asked Amazon and Janine for a therapist on set, not just for me, but for the other actors and crew members, and so we had that,” she shared. “And then I had my my own therapist. And then after the show, I took a break for like six months and I went to Costa Rica for a week and just stayed in the jungle, meditated, woke up, ate some food, went to the beach, fell asleep.”
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