Dominique Fishback tells us all about making SwarmOnPrime and how she balances acting with celebrity.
Dominique Fishback has an open invitation to Collider Ladies Night for a number of reasons. First, she’s incredibly talented and has a wild amount of range. Second, she recognizes that range and uses it by loading up her filmography with a wide variety of projects, all with complex characters that demand she flexes her acting muscles to the fullest.
While revisiting her time studying theater at Pace University, Fishback pinpointed one thing that all the schooling in the world never could have prepared her for when she first became a successful professional actor — celebrity. Here’s how she put it: "There's definitely glamour in the industry. Being an actor is glamorous. You get to wear all these cool things and see all the cool people and go to the premieres and things like that, but also, you do 17-hour days on sets. You sometimes do six-day weeks. Doing Transformers, I'm really in the jungle being afraid of, I don't know, poison frogs and things that could kill you in an hour. It’s real. It’s acting, but it is real and it does take a toll.
As someone who often views leaving a task incomplete as a failure, Fishback’s willingness to pivot with such a tradition is extremely inspiring. She added, “In other ways, I'm working on myself, so maybe this is the first time with a vision board [where] I will guide the vision board as opposed to the vision board guiding me in some kind of way.”
Fishback stepped up in an especially big way on Swarm. Two big ways, in fact! She was initially approached for the role of Dre’s sister, Marissa, but Fishback felt a pull to Dre herself and followed her gut by suggesting the role-swap to Swarm co-creator Donald Glover. “Donald's like, if that's the role you want, that’s the role you get.” She continued:
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