Former first daughter Malia Obama reportedly received some blunt direction from Donald Glover over her choice to enter Hollywood.
Speaking with GQ, Glover (“Atlanta,” “30 Rock” and multiple successful albums as Childish Gambino) announced that his production company’s first project will be a short film created by Obama. Obama previously worked with Glover on one of his Amazon projects and he’s been mentoring her ever since.
“The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once. You’re Obama’s daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around,” Glover told GQ. His longtime collaborator and creative partner Fam Udeorji echoed Glover’s sentiment.
“Understanding somebody like Malia’s cachet means something,” he noted. “But we really wanted to make sure she could make what she wanted—even if it was a slow process.”
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Every aspiring director makes a short film as their first foray into the industry. What every single one of these people doesn’t realize is that there have only been about three short films in history that are worth a crap. Also, no one wants to see them ever.
The only short film I’ve ever seen that made me go ,”oh, that was quite good actually” was “The Eleven O’Clock,” written by Australian actor Josh Lawson. It was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to launch Lawson into a series of huge roles here in the U.S. and abroad. (RELATED: ‘Extrapolations’ Is Hollywood’s All-Star Dystopian Climate Dream Where We Hate Our Kids (REVIEW, SPOILERS))
Malia Obama might be the next Lawson. Who knows! I’m happy to hold this space and wait to see. She certainly can’t do worse than the thousands of losers in LA who still think they’re going to make it after putting together ten minutes of their untreated childhood trauma for the world to literally never see.