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Donald Glover Hires Malia Obama As A Writer For His Upcoming Amazon Series

<p class&equals;"p1">Donald Glover recently confirmed that he has recruited Malia Obama to the writers room for his new Amazon series&excl; The series&comma; potentially called &OpenCurlyQuote;<i>Hive<&sol;i>&comma;’ is rumored to focus on a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Beyonce-like figure&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She’s just like&comma; an amazingly talented person&comma;” Donald told <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanityfair&period;com&sol;">Vanity Fair<&sol;a> at the &&num;8216&semi;<i>Atlanta&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;i> season three premiere&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She’s really focused&comma; and she’s working really hard&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I feel like she’s just somebody who’s gonna have really good things coming soon&period; Her writing style is great&comma;” said the &&num;8216&semi;<em>Atlanta&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em> creator and star&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"p1">This isn’t twenty-three-year-old Malia’s first industry gig&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s been actively pursuing a career in Hollywood for a few years&period; Malia has previously worked on Halle Berry’s &OpenCurlyQuote;<i>Extant’<&sol;i> in 2014 as a production assistant&comma; followed by HBO’s &OpenCurlyQuote;<i>Girls’<&sol;i> in 2015&period; She even worked for the Weinstein Company back in 2017&period;<span class&equals;"Apple-converted-space"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also joining Malia in the writers room is Donald&&num;8217&semi;s younger brother&comma; &&num;8216&semi;<em>Atlanta&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em> cowriter and executive producer Stephen Glover&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Donald always says perspective is important&comma; and people with different perspectives are important for a writers room&period; And for sure&comma; she definitely has a unique perspective on everything&comma;” said Stephen of Obama&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So we wanted to hear her stories and have her work with us&period; Listening to her stories and having her involved really gave us a lot of good ideas&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked how he might shoot down one of Obama’s pitches&comma; Stephen joked&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Well&comma; you know&comma; we just hurt her feelings&period; We can’t be easy on her just because she’s the &lbrack;former&rsqb; president’s daughter&period;” He added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nah&comma; she’s very down to earth&comma; and cool&period; So&comma; it’s not a problem at all&period; She has a lot of good ideas&period; She’s great&period; She’s just a regular person like everybody else&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;">click here to join&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"86806" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;donald-glover-hires-malia-obama-as-a-writer-for-his-upcoming-amazon-series&sol;" data-secure&equals;"680b1dd680"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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