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It's Bullseye, I'm Jessie Thorn. I'm excited about every interview. We get to do on Bullseye,

but I am especially excited to share with you this one. It's with Dominique Fishback.

She's an actor. For the last 10 years, she has been building up her resume with supporting roles.

In 2018, she appeared in the David Simon Mini-Series Show Me A Hero. It was a breakthrough role for Fishback.

She played Billy Rowan. Billy was a single mother growing up in a housing project in Yonkers.

Fishback parlayed that into a regular role on the Duce, another David Simon series.

Then she played Deborah Johnson in Judas and the Black Messiah, a drama based on the true story of Black Panther, Fred Hampton.

That role earned her a BAFTA nomination among other accolades.

Fishback is terrific in all those supporting parts, but make no mistake. The woman is a star, a fierce and brilliant presence on the screen.

Disarming and vulnerable in one moment, terrifying in the next. And if you want proof, look no further than her latest project, Swarm.

It's a TV series created by Donald Glover and writer Janine Neighbors.

Dominique plays Dre. When the show begins, Dre is sharing an apartment with her foster sister, Marissa.

The two of them are close. They're the kind of sisters who share everything.

That includes a love for Nijja, a pop singer, whose very much like Beyoncé.

Dre's life unravels pretty quickly in Swarm. First Marissa moves out, then she dies.

Dre loses her apartment, her job, and before long her grief for Marissa and her obsession with Nijja, curdled into something much more disturbing.

Disturbing and deadly.

Like I said, I'm excited to share with you this interview a quick warning as you might have guessed.

Dominique and I will talk about the show and the death and violence that it depicts.

There are also some graphic descriptions of violence and loss Dominique encountered in her own life.

So if you are someone you're listening to is sensitive to those kinds of things we thought you should know.

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