Billie Eilish Breaks Down ‘F—ed Up’ ‘Swarm’ Character, Resonating With Storyline: Passionate Fans Are ‘Beautiful’ Yet ‘Really Scary’
variety.comSelome Hailu As Billie Eilish treated herself to a bowl of soup the day after her headlining performance at the first weekend of Coachella 2022, she learned that Donald Glover was looking for her. “I was on some management call, and I remember being told, ‘There’s this show, but it’s during a period of time where you’re not available.
It’s a pass,”’ she says about the first time she heard about Amazon Prime Video’s “Swarm.” “I was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck are you talking about?
This is my dream!”’ The daughter of actors Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, Eilish grew up acting in plays, but as her pop music stardom grew, she shelved those ambitions. “I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t wanna do this anymore.’ I did, but it’s always been a deep thing that I’ve been reluctant to talk about because I thought I was really bad.” After finagling her schedule and enlisting Baird as her acting coach, Eilish still “couldn’t have been more nervous.” But that changed when she found herself up close and personal with lead Dominique Fishback, who plays the socially inept serial killer Dre.
Eilish’s Eva runs an NXIVM-like cult that sucks in Dre. The first scene they shot together was also their most intense: a therapy session where Eva manipulates Dre into revealing her true identity. “She came into my trailer and sat her butt right down next to me.
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