Interview: Dominique Fishback (Swarm) and Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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When Dominique Fishback was first offered a role on the Prime Video series Swarm, she said no — and after talking to co-creator Donald Glover, she wound up with the lead instead. That's just one of many ways, she tells David Canfield, that she's betting on herself these days. And for Paul Walter Hauser, the experience of embodying a serial killer on the Apple series Black Bird stuck with him so deeply that he changed his entire life, including getting sober. He tells Rebecca Ford about the role's impact on his life, and the surreal awards season that has already followed.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.
0:05.0	I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.
0:10.0	And the Oscar goes too.
0:12.0	And the Oscar goes too.
0:15.0	The winner, it's a tie.
0:19.0	And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.
0:25.0	Mom, I just want an Oscar.
0:36.0	I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:37.0	And for this week's interview episode, I'm joined by David Canfield.
0:41.0	Hi, David.
0:42.0	Hi, Rebecca.
0:43.0	So we've got two really great interviews this week.
0:46.0	I think we should start with yours, which is with Dominique Fishback, who stars in swarm.
0:52.0	She is just one of those actors that I feel like you can't take your eyes off her when she's on screen.
0:56.0	And swarm seems like an incredibly demanding project.
1:00.0	So what did she have to say about it?
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	First of all, she's such a bright light to interview.
1:07.0	And after you watch this show and it's this tour to four and really, really intensely dramatic at times,
1:12.0	it was kind of disarming to see just how bubbly and kind of infectious her personality was.
1:19.0	And I think that also reflected the way she experienced the show, which is having an understanding that
1:25.0	this would require a really different kind of prep process than what she was used to, a different kind of immersion,
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