Malia Obama is serious in Hollywood: the eldest daughter of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is shooting a 'short' with Gilga, the new production company of her mentor, Danny Glover.
The former First Daughter is 24 years old.
You will make your directorial debut on the short, you said in an interview with Gq magazine, Glover, who is also known by the stage name of Childish Gambino.
These are the only details of the project which, however, added the multifaceted actor and singer, presents many risks.
Glover told Malia that the spotlight is dangerous: "The first thing we talked about is the fact that she has only one chance. You're Barack Obama's daughter. If you make a bad movie, it will follow you for life." .
Malia Obama is not without experience: the multifaceted star of Atlanta the
has already put to work in the writer's room on his Amazon Prime series, Swarm: The Show, which debuted on the streaming platform March 17 as part of Glover's multi-year deal with Prime, follows a young woman named Dre, played by The Hate U Give actress Dominique Fishback, whose obsession with a Beyoncé-inspired singer leads her astray.
Gilga therefore accompanies the growth of Malia in the profession to which the girl aspires since high school: "We really wanted to be sure that she can do what she wants, even if the process is slow," said Fam Udeorji, a creative partner of the house of production.
Malia, who graduated from Harvard two years ago, nevertheless made herself noticed while working for Swarm: "It's
an incredible screenwriter who brought many proposals to our table.
Some of them were crazy, but they were also very good and funny,” said series co-creator (and Watchman writer) Janine Nabers. Malia collaborated with Nabers on the central episode Girl, Bye for which she received credit in the series. Since she was in high school, at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, Obama's daughter has been cultivating interests in the world of cinema by doing high-profile internships in various TV productions including "Girls" by Lena Dunham with Hbo and "Extant ” of CBS, but also at the Weinstein Company, before former producer Harvey Weinstein was overwhelmed by rape and sexual harassment allegations, and then as a production assistant on the Halle Berry show Extant for CBS.
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