Donald Glover Draws Ire for Comparing ‘Swarm’ Character to a Dog
Donald Glover, the actor, screenwriter and co-creator (with playwright Janine Nabers) of the new Amazon Prime horror series Swarm, has been on the receiving end of a storm of criticism on Tuesday due to comments he made about series star Dominique Fishback, and the implications his words might have regarding his thoughts about Black women, in a new interview with Vulture.
The series stars Fishback, a Black actress who previously broke through in the Academy Award-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah, as a dangerously obsessed fan of a Beyoncé-inspired pop star whose need to be close to the object of her affection turns feral and murderous.
In the Vulture piece, Fishback acknowledges that she had trouble making sense of her character’s motivations, and as far as Glover describes it, the confusion may have been intentional.