‘Swarm’ Co-Creator Janine Nabers Touts Dominique Fishback’s Performance “Of The Ages” In Prime Video’s Satirical Horror-Comedy – Contenders TV
deadline.comAlthough 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?
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