We’re putting ‘I feel that for this person’ onto that face. We can understand that the feeling is something like” - she pauses, letting my mind fill in the blank- “who we’re familiar with. It’s really about allowing us to see that Ni’Jah is that person for Dre. “If you ask who is the representation of them in the words of music and song and unapologetic Black girl realness, everyone’s gonna have different answers. “For us, it was really about finding the feeling that someone gives to Black women in America,” she says. Actors including Chloe Bailey, Paris Jackson, and Damson Idris were selected in part because they, as Nabers puts it, “have their own swarm of people around them.” The most important casting choice of all, of course, was who would play Dre herself. The casting choices, too, are intentional. As in all Glover’s work, every detail of Swarm is purposefully chosen - from the years in which it’s set (2016-2018, when social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram were firmly established as central to the pop culture conversation) to its tongue-in-cheek references to real world events (stripper altercations, high-profile infidelity, trespassing fans) and people (Ni’jah’s fanbase, the titular swarm, is a Beyhive by any other name). “He called me and was like, ‘I really want this to be the first show that has my name on it with yours after Atlanta,” says Nabers, a writer, producer and collaborator of Glover’s on seasons 3 and 4 (she is also a playwright).Ī character-study at its core, Swarm feels like a darker sister to Atlanta. Swarm premieres mere months after the conclusion of Glover’s widely beloved Atlanta - but he and Nabers, who is the series’ showrunner, began work on it much earlier.
Dominique Fishback in “Swarm” Courtesy of Prime Video
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