Donald Glover Shares the Advice He Gave Malia Obama While Mentoring Her: 'She Will Only Get to Do This Once'
04.04.2023 - 14:51
/ etonline.com
Donald Glover is stepping into a new era of his career, one where he helps foster «the freshest entertainment and art» with Gilga, his new production company/incubator/cultural library. In an interview for 's first-ever Global Creativity Awards issue, Glover explains that the company is named after Gilgamesh, the mythic Mesopotamian hero who angered the gods. «Gilga is like Erewhon for culture,» the 39-year-old tells the outlet, referring to the high-end California supermarket. «I want to work with the best people in every medium.
To work toward sustainable output. The culture we're getting from our phones is not high quality.
It can be really good sometimes. And fun.
But not necessarily high quality. Gilga is the filter for all of that.» The filmmaker shares that one of Gilga's first projects is a short film created by Malia Obama, whom Glover has been mentoring. «The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once,» he reveals.
«You're [Barack] Obama's daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around.»It isn't the first time Glover and Obama worked on a project together -- the former first daughter made her TV writing debut on Glover and Janine Nabers' Prime Video series, . After first interning on the set of and then working as a production assistant on the Halle Berry series , Obama was recruited by Glover to be a staff writer on , which also included Stephen Glover, Ibra Ake, Jamal Olori, Kara Brown and Karen Joseph Adcock in the writers' room. The show follows a young woman named Dre (Dominique Fishback), who goes on an increasingly violent journey following an unexpected trauma involving her sister, Marissa (Chloe Bailey), as she tries to get closer to her idol, the
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