The true-life inspiration behind Billie Eilish‘s function within the Donald Glover-written and produced Amazon Prime Video collection, Swarm, has been revealed.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, Swarm’s co-writer and producer Janine Nabers revealed that the function – Eilish’s first – was impressed by the notorious Hollywood-adjacent cult NXIVM and its chief Keith Raniere.
In Swarm, Eilish stars as Eva, the younger government director of a feminine empowerment group that later is revealed to be a cult.
“There’s a cult that existed on the earth that was very outstanding throughout that point,” Nabers advised The Hollywood Reporter. “And that’s the form of true-crime aspect to that episode. And I believe that when folks consider the concept of artists or celebrities, there’s this concept of occupied with the cult of Taylor Swift, or the cult of the Beatles or no matter. What we have been actually taken with was simply seeing somebody who worships on the altar of ‘one thing,’ and (exploring) this concept of what’s the cult of the thoughts.”
The present’s protagonist is performed by Dominique Fishback who added, saying Eilish was “respectful of the craft” and “got here in with concepts, wanting to speak about it, being recreation to rehearse.”
Set between 2016 and 2018, Swarm follows Dre (Dominique Fishback), a fan of the fictional music icon Ni’Jah, whose love for her favourite singer crosses the road from obsessive to murderous.
Swarm is on the market for streaming on Amazon Prime Video now.
