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Malia Obama Joins Donald Glover's Writing Team
Malia Obama went from the White House to the writers' room.
The erstwhile First Daughter joined the penning unit of the upcoming Prime Video series Swarm—co-created by Donald Glover—it was revealed successful June 2021. Now, her TV bosses are revealing what it was similar having the caller Harvard grad on for the ride.
"She's a precise nonrecreational person," co-creator Janine Nabers, who besides worked with Glover arsenic an enforcement shaper on the last 2 seasons of Atlanta, told Vanity Fair in an interrogation published Jan. 30. "She's an unthinkable writer and artist."
Nabers explained that it wasn't conscionable amusive small part-time gig for the 24-year-old, who graduated with a grade in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard successful 2021.
"We truly wanted to springiness her the accidental to get her feet bedewed successful TV," Nabers said, "and spot if this is thing she wants to proceed doing."
In a abstracted interrogation with Vanity Fair successful March 2022, Glover lauded Obama's contributions to the show, calling her "amazingly talented."
"I consciousness similar she's conscionable idiosyncratic who's gonna person truly bully things coming soon," Glover continued. "Her penning benignant is great."
Despite her pedigree, Glover insisted they treated Malia conscionable similar immoderate different member of the originative team.
"We can't beryllium casual connected her conscionable due to the fact that she's the [former] President's daughter," helium said. "Nah, she's precise down to earth, and cool. So, it's not a occupation astatine all."
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Swarm tells the communicative of a pistillate named Dre, played Judas and the Black Messiah's Dominique Fishback, who becomes obsessed with a fictional popular star, according to Vanity Fair, who bares a striking similarity to Beyoncé.
The bid besides stars Chloe Bailey arsenic Dre's sister and Damson Idris arsenic Dre's boyfriend.
While there is nary authoritative premiere day for Swarm, it is expected to deed Prime Video aboriginal this year.
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