Who Plays "Dre" In Swarm? Meet Dominique Fishback

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Who plays "Dre" in Swarm? Meet the brilliant actress Dominique Fishback.
The brand new TV series Swarm was officially released on March 17th, and it surely has taken us surprised by the dark, twisted story.
The main character of Swarm is Andrea "Dre" Greene, who has an unhealthy obsession with the world's most famous star Ni'jah. Dre considers herself Ni'jah "real" best friend. She would do absolutely anything for a chance to meet Ni'jah, even if it involves some violence and killing. Dre is a frightening, ruthless person, and Dominique Fishback has done a really good job in potraying the dark side of this character. Let's get to know more about the actress!

#1. Who Plays "Dre" In Swarm? Meet Dominique Fishback

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Dominique Flashback was born on March 22, 1991 in Brooklyn, New York.
Dominique has always loved in acting. It started when the children's musical theater company TADA! visited her elementary school. She auditioned for the company several times, only to be turned down each time.
When Dominique was 12, her school guidance counselor told her that she lacked the "it" factor to become an actress. "It broke my heart and I went home crying", she reveals in an interview with NME.

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Even though she got upset because of the counselor's remark, she still went ahead and auditioned for LaGuardia, a prestigious Manhattan performing arts school. Unfortunately, the school turned her down, so Dominique went to an ordinary high school in Brooklyn. She directed her focus to basketball for a period of time.
However, her passion for acting just never ends. When Dominique turned 15, she found "free acting programs for kids in NYC" through Google and won a spot on a short theater course. She studied acting at the MCC Theater.

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After that, she went to Pace University to study theater arts. While attending the university, she also acted as a spoken-word poet, performing around New York. In 2014, she released her own Off Broadway solo show, Subverted. She first stepped into the Hollywood industry by taking on one-off roles in TV shows. Then, in 2015, she got casted in the HBO mini-series, Show Me A Hero, where she played a young mother who got caught in tough situations.
“I just knew from a young age that I had to do a job that I loved every day. I was so adamant that I couldn’t be in an office. Like, there was nothing else I could see myself doing, so I just had to have tunnel vision”, she said.

#2. How Did Dominique Fishback Get The Role Of Andrea "Dre" Greene?

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Dominique was initially offered the role of Dre's sister, Marissa. But Marissa is not the role that Dominique wants, so she asked the show's creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers for the lead instead.
Her decision certainly caught Donald Glover by surprise. “She felt very sweet, like someone you wanted to take care of, but she wanted to do the opposite, which I completely understand even in my own career. She wanted to branch out, and I was excited to allow her to do that”, he shared.
Dominique explained that she was looking for personal and artistic freedom when she found this role. Marissa may be familiar to Dominique, but the actress didn't want to portray a role similar to herself. Moreover, Dre reminded Dominique of Charlize Theron in Monster and Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry. According to Dominique, she admires these two characters as they are able to transform into someone completely different from who they used to be.

 

#3. Dominique Fishback's Experience With Swarm

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At first, Dominique can't really understand the thoughts and emotions of Dre. “I really didn’t know who she was or what she physically was going to be like, so I just tried things. The only thing they really gave me was that she was emotionally stunted”, the actress admitted. She usually journals, but she couldn't do that with Dre as she can't relate to the character. As a result, the actress had to improvise and tried her best to dig into Dre's personality.
"I think, for me, one of the harder things was the fact that, as an actor in school, you're always taught to never judge your characters. You have to have a clean slate for them in order to do them well and to do them justice", Dominique said.

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As we could see, the show is dark and gory. It mentions a lot of sensitive topics such as murder, obsession, parasocial relationship, childhood trauma or self-harm. Therefore, Dominique wanted to make sure that people get proper care.
“I asked them that they have therapists on set for people to be able to talk to, because although it’s acting, it could be triggering. We don’t know what people are going through in their lives. So I wanted to be conscious and aware of that to make sure people could go home in one piece and feel at peace as much as possible”, Fishback tells Complex in an interview.

 


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