Dominique Fishback is sitting backstage waiting to discuss her latest role, starring in Amazon Prime Video’s “Swarm,” when her ears perk up at a familiar sound: an engine revving.
On the other side of a partition, an audience watches a particularly tense scene from the show’s fourth episode, titled “Running Scared,” when Fishback’s Dre — a murderous super fan of Ni’jah, a Beyoncé-esque pop star — faces down a group of women who stand between her and attending the singer’s concert.
Fishback playfully re-enacts the scene, gripping an imaginary steering wheel and pressing her high-heeled foot down onto a pretend gas pedal that sends her speeding ahead and crashing into Dre’s latest victims. She pulls a funny face and hams it up for a rep’s cellphone camera, unknowingly demonstrating the type of darkly comedic energy that makes “Swarm” so buzzworthy.
“There’s a lot...
On the other side of a partition, an audience watches a particularly tense scene from the show’s fourth episode, titled “Running Scared,” when Fishback’s Dre — a murderous super fan of Ni’jah, a Beyoncé-esque pop star — faces down a group of women who stand between her and attending the singer’s concert.
Fishback playfully re-enacts the scene, gripping an imaginary steering wheel and pressing her high-heeled foot down onto a pretend gas pedal that sends her speeding ahead and crashing into Dre’s latest victims. She pulls a funny face and hams it up for a rep’s cellphone camera, unknowingly demonstrating the type of darkly comedic energy that makes “Swarm” so buzzworthy.
“There’s a lot...
- 6/3/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Kaluuya plays Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton in the new film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He has won the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for his performance in addition to a nomination from the SAG Awards.
Kaluuya recently spoke with Gold Derby senior editor Daniel Montgomery about the research process for playing Hampton, the weight of the role itself and what he hopes audiences will get from the film. Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
See(Almost) all of our Editors now predict Daniel Kaluuya (‘Judas and the Black Messiah’) to win Oscar
Gold Derby: You star as Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He was assassinated by the FBI when he was just 21 but he wasn’t as widely known as other civil rights figures of the era. Were you reluctant at all to take...
Kaluuya recently spoke with Gold Derby senior editor Daniel Montgomery about the research process for playing Hampton, the weight of the role itself and what he hopes audiences will get from the film. Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
See(Almost) all of our Editors now predict Daniel Kaluuya (‘Judas and the Black Messiah’) to win Oscar
Gold Derby: You star as Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” He was assassinated by the FBI when he was just 21 but he wasn’t as widely known as other civil rights figures of the era. Were you reluctant at all to take...
- 3/10/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
“I was deeply honored and felt deeply blessed that it came my way and I’m in a position to receive it,” remembers Daniel Kaluuya about how he felt to be cast in the role of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton in director Shaka King‘s “Judas and the Black Messiah.” By taking part in this seldom-told story about Hamtpon’s life, activism and ultimate assassination by the FBI, the actor was “aiming to be honest,” first and foremost. “I didn’t overthink it, I just stayed present and let it come through me.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Kaluuya above.
He “felt an emotional responsibility sitting down with” Hamtpon’s surviving family, including his son Fred Hampton Jr., who participated in the film as a cultural consultant. “They’re really going through this day-to-day, the repercussions of what happened almost 52 years ago. It made me show up even more,...
He “felt an emotional responsibility sitting down with” Hamtpon’s surviving family, including his son Fred Hampton Jr., who participated in the film as a cultural consultant. “They’re really going through this day-to-day, the repercussions of what happened almost 52 years ago. It made me show up even more,...
- 2/19/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party Fred Hampton was a stirring orator, firing hearts and minds out of slumber and into action against US capitalism. So clear and infectious was Hampton’s guidance against the country’s racist and classist economic system that the FBI and Chicago police department assassinated the 21-year-old as he slept. In documentaries like The Murder of Fred Hampton, which don’t circulate enough, Hampton is seen delivering his famous speeches at rallies, casually moving fellow Panthers with his warmth in a mock trial at the headquarters, mingling at the Free Breakfast for School Children Program and […]
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The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/17/2021
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party Fred Hampton was a stirring orator, firing hearts and minds out of slumber and into action against US capitalism. So clear and infectious was Hampton’s guidance against the country’s racist and classist economic system that the FBI and Chicago police department assassinated the 21-year-old as he slept. In documentaries like The Murder of Fred Hampton, which don’t circulate enough, Hampton is seen delivering his famous speeches at rallies, casually moving fellow Panthers with his warmth in a mock trial at the headquarters, mingling at the Free Breakfast for School Children Program and […]
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post "We Weren't Trying to Go for an Exact Imitation": Dialect Coach Audrey LeCrone on Judas and the Black Messiah first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/17/2021
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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