“I’m used to playing characters that are ‘easier to love’ I want to stretch myself,” she told them. “I was like, I don’t know if I’m that brave of an actor… But it really made me consider, what kind of actor do I want to be?” Just as she geared herself up to take a leap, they offered the New Yorker the role of Marissa, instead of Dre. He just said, watch this movie called The Piano Teacher.” Fishback was sucked in by Isabelle Huppert’s unsettling performance in the erotic 2001 film. “My team told me that Donald Glover had a show with me in mind,” explains its breakout star Dominique Fishback. But when Dre loses Marissa, broken by guilt and grief, she sets out to protect her favourite singer at any, increasingly bloody, cost. Ni’Jah is what she bonds over with her other great love, her sister Marissa (played by Chloë Bailey). It follows Dre, a withdrawn, unpopular stan of a pop superstar called Ni’Jah. Created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, the buzzy show explores toxic fandom inside a doxxing hive community – referencing a familiar-feeling power couple’s world tour, elevator fights, and a mystery bite at a party – with roles for Paris Jackson and Billie Eilish, plus Malia Obama in the writers’ room. Swarm is a show about obsession on the internet that is itself now an internet obsession: little wonder that the feeling is mutual.

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