Swarm star HeatherASimms talks about Dre’s dark turn and a RockfordFiles-style spinoff for Detective Loretta Greene in our exclusive interview.
Following its highly anticipated premiere at SXSW this past month and its seven-episode drop on March 17 to Amazon Prime Video, the surreal and darkly comedic series Swarm has audiences in a real fan frenzy. Created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, the critically acclaimed, feverish series has nabbed attention for its powerhouse performance from Dominique Fishback and its sharp writing subverting the realities of toxic fandoms.
HEATHER SIMMS: The thing is, I felt like I hadn’t seen a character like this, right? She’s really after the truth, but she’s so funny as well, and I really dug the humor in it. But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute, is this me? Is this me inserting the humor in this character?’ But no, it was there. It was really there. It was alive, and I just wanted to be able to get in there and play.
It adds a very interesting element that you just come in and you don’t know what’s happening and you’re just told exactly what to follow. So for you, it must have been like, ‘Okay, well what is this really about? What is this whole series doing?!’ SIMMS: The thing is, it is about this fandom, but when I’m looking at the clues and I said, ‘Oh, wait a minute, this woman, the white woman, probably would not have had these hair products, these specific hair products and a bonnet,’ and thinking about the profile of the perpetrator. I’m like, ‘Oh, again, we fall through again.’ And listen, no one wants someone from their community to be a serial killer.
I cannot help but think getting into the mindset of a detective is easy. Did you listen to a lot of true-crime podcasts or watch documentaries? SIMMS: Well, I think what it is that we’ve seen this, we’ve seen aspects of this show in the zeitgeist, and we’re like, ‘Wait a minute, is this real? Did this really happen? But could it happen?’ And even the top of Episode 6 where the guy who’s talking about being a fan and that whole monologue, I think he’s brilliant in how he goes into... His relationship to the fandom. And how you can get lost in it. And it made me think about when I was growing up and who I was like, ‘Oh my gosh.
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