I Genuinely Can't Watch "Swarm" The Same Way Again After Learning These Behind-The-Scenes Facts,"Every single person stopped what they were doing and gave Dom a standing ovation for three minutes."
I Genuinely Can’t Watch “Swarm” The Same Way Again After Learning These Behind-The-Scenes Facts
???This post contains spoilers for Swarm???
Swarm‘s version of the singer, Ni’Jah, releases a visual album (à la Beyoncé’s self-titled album in 2013), has a sister who fights her husband in an elevator (like the Solange and Jay-Z incident following 2014’s Met Gala), has twins (Beyoncé had her twins in 2017), and is bitten at a party (like Beyoncé reportedly was in 2018).
2. Swarm is the first project in Donald Glover’s development deal with Amazon Prime Video.
It was originally called Hive.
3. It’s also the first of Glover’s projects that he’s worked only behind the camera on.
He’s always acted in every movie or show he’s directed, written, and/or produced until now.
4. Speaking of which, Glover directed the pilot of Swarm.
5. He and co-creator, Janine Nabers, used Tony Soprano and Don Draper as inspiration for Dre.
“We were really interested in creating an antihero story…through the lens of a Black, modern-day woman,” Nabers, who was a writer and producer on Glover’s series, Atlanta, said in an interview with Vanity Fair.
6. Dominique Fishback, who stars as Dre, the Black, modern-day woman in question, was handpicked by Glover and Nabers…
Fishback told Vanity Fair, “I heard from my team that Donald was creating a show and wanted me to be part of it. I was like, ‘Oh, shoot! Donald Glover knows me. That’s pretty cool.'”
7. …but they wanted her for a different role.
She revealed that they originally asked her to play Dre’s sister, Marissa, but she lobbied to play the lead.
“I don’t want to be able to catch up to myself as an actor,” the actor said. “[Dre] didn’t give a lot of direction about who she was, why she felt the way she did. I really had to go on instinct.”