“Beyhive, don’t kill us,” Donald Glover said, with just a hint of nerves in his voice, at the Los Angeles premiere of “Swarm,” his latest series for Amazon’s Prime Video. “It’s not that bad. It’s a…
What I didn’t know then was that this clip would get repurposed for the show itself … but I won’t spoil how.
“The big thing I was the most proud of — and I always want to do that — is to try and give people like [Dominique] roles that she normally wouldn’t get,” Glover said Tuesday. By putting a character like Dre into a high-concept production, that’s shot on film and inspired by ‘70s and ‘80s cinema, yet tied to the modern day culture of celebrity, she said, “Swarm” expands the landscape for what a psychological thriller can, quite literally, look like.“It’s a beautiful thing, because we get access to people that we never had access to before, but we also get access to people that we never had before,” she said.
Glover said: “People are like, ‘Oh, the news is ‘post-truth’ now, and we don’t know what’s real and what’s not.’ And I’m like, yeah, maybe that’s the bad part, but the good part is it makes stories feel better? I loved in the ‘Atlanta’ season, where we made the fake mockumentary. That was good, because it felt real. I’m trying to make things feel real.”
Her natural response is parallel to how her character dealt with her emotions. “The difference with Marissa and Dre is that Marissa would physically harm herself and Dre would physically harm other people,” she explained. “They’re both cut from the same cloth, but like weird zigzag shapes.” Held at the Lighthouse ArtSpace in Hollywood, the venue was transformed into a beehive, with faux honeycombs built into the step and repeat, and the wraparound screens on the gallery walls buzzing with bee imagery before the episodes began. When it came to the bee motif, no detail was too small — as the cocktail napkins were printed with a “tweet” from one of the pop star’s “followers.” It read: “Ni’Jah is the Queen and we need to protect her at all costs.
X Mayo is also hopeful that the unexpected nature of the series will create more opportunities for Black creatives to take risks.
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