Obama’s oldest daughter Malia working on TV show alongside Donald Glover
Malia Obama had interned with HBO in 2015
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Malia Obama, the elder of the two daughters of the former US president Barack Obama, is reportedly going to start working as a writer for Donald Glover’s project for Amazon.
The 22-year-old has been recruited to be the part of the writers room for a series on Amazon’s Prime Video.
The American actor’s deal with Amazon includes several projects and one potential series among them could be “Hive”, a programme revolving around a personality like Beyoncé, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
The news report said that the project has already started recruiting people for the writers room and Ms Obama is among them.
This is not her first tryst with writing or television. In fact, in 2015, she interned at HBO for the show called “Girls”.
In 2017, the show’s creator, Lena Dunham, told radio show host Howard Stern that Malia Obama is an angel.
“She was interested and she was interning at HBO and they thought what if she comes a couple days a week to the set of Girls. She loved the show, and I mean, obviously we weren’t like making her go get our coffee. But she wanted to do all the jobs. That was the cool thing,” Ms Dunham had said.
Over the years, the daughter of the former president, a student at Harvard University, has been in news and controversies for various reasons.
In 2017, she was part of protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline while in 2020 she took part in the Black Lives Matter protests.
In 2019, a video of her blowing smoke rings in a bathroom had stirred controversy but Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the then US president Donald Trump, had defended her saying that “Malia Obama should be allowed the same privacy as her school aged peers… She is a young adult and private citizen, and should be OFF limits.”
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments