In February 2021, The Hollywood Reporter disclosed that Donald Glover had exited his pact with FX for a multiple-year cope with Amazon. This deal will see Glover govt producing a variety of tasks for the streamer, together with one referred to as “Hive,” which has already begun staffing a writers’ room that features none aside from Malia Obama. “Hive” is rumored to characteristic a Beyoncé-like determine and are available from the thoughts of “Watchmen”‘s Janine Nabers.
In a current interview with Selection, Glover described Obama as “any individual who’s gonna have actually good issues coming quickly” earlier than including that her “writing type is nice.” Glover’s brother and collaborator, Stephen, echoed the identical sentiments, saying, “Donald at all times says perspective is essential, and other people with totally different views are essential for a writers’ room. And for certain, [Malia] positively has a novel perspective on every part. So we needed to listen to her tales and have her work with us. Listening to her tales and having her concerned actually gave us loads of good concepts.”
This is not Obama’s first job within the leisure business. In 2014, she served as a manufacturing assistant on “Extant,” with star Halle Berry saying on “Watch What Occurs Dwell,” “She was all the way down to do no matter a PA is requested to do, and I had wild respect for her for that. Everyone could not actually see her as a PA, though she tried and tried to be one. We simply could not actually see her as one, however to her credit score, she tried very arduous to be one.” She then went on to intern for HBO’s “Ladies” in 2015, the place she was educated to do the work of a author’s assistant.
