'Swarm' creator Janine Nabers says a full frontal nude scene was inspired by co-creator Donald Glover's 'very funny' hook-up story

• "Swarm" co-creator Janine Nabers revealed in an interview with Insider that Donald Glover's past hook up inspired a scene in the pilot.
• In the scene, Dre has sex with a man who later holds a bowl of fruit next to his flaccid penis.

Amazon Prime's new show "Swarm" explores the power of female friendships and stan culture, and the effects that misplaced devotion can have. But even though the drama, co-created by Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, deals with some seriously heavy material, there's plenty of comedy — including a scene in the pilot episode involving a flaccid penis and a bowl of fruit.

In the scene, Dre (Dominique Fishback) wakes up after having lost her virginity to a random man (Rory Culkin) she met at a bar. To her surprise, the man is naked, washing a bowl of strawberries. He then walks over to her and offers her some fruit, with the glass bowl pressed directly against his flaccid penis.

Nabers, speaking to Insider at the South by Southwest Film & TV festival in Austin on Saturday, revealed that this particular scene was inspired by Glover's story of a hook up gone awkward.

"Donald told this very funny story about a girl who he really liked, and how after they hooked, he was standing there with a bowl of cherries, just being like, 'Hey,'" Nabers recalled. "She was like, so not into it, because it's so weird to hook up with a guy that you barely know and then wake up with him holding a bowl of cherries."

"I was like, 'I'm stealing that,'" Nabers added of her response to Glover's story. "And he was like, 'All right.' So I just ran with it."

Elsewhere in her interview with Insider, Nabers spoke about her and Glover's inspiration while creating the show, which follows Dre as she deals with a crushing loss and subsequent descent into murderous mania.

"I'm a Black woman, so any ankle into this story was always gonna be rooted in that," the playwright said, adding: "There's a lot of different things that we set out to look at in terms of just, like, online stan culture and stuff, but that is very much a backdrop to what this story is. This story at the end of the day is really about Dre and her relationship with her sister, and how this pilot becomes the origin story of a villain."

According to Nabers, Dre is "an outsider in her own life," and the show explores how she eventually comes into her own as an adult woman.

"Swarm" is currently streaming on Amazon Prime video. You can watch the trailer below.