Malia Obama isn’t one to brag about her accomplishments—Luckily, there are outlets like The Hollywood Reporter to do it for her, reporting former president Barack Obama’s eldest daughter’s latest achievement: a TV writing gig on an upcoming Donald Glover series tentatively called Hive for Amazon, about a “Beyoncé-like” public figure.
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Malia is scheduled to graduate from Harvard University this spring, which means it wouldn’t have been unusual for the senior to be doing some job-hunting as she prepares for the looming gulf that is adult life. And while she may well have been, THR further reports that Malia was actually specifically recruited for this writing job. It’s baller moves only for the Obama girls, and that means you wait for showrunner Glover to call you.
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Malia will have the privilege of working in a writer’s room headed up by Watchmen‘s Janine Nabers on this Amazon project, which is currently in the recruiting phase and starting to put together a creative team. The former first daughter has previously interned at The Weinstein Company (yes, that Weinstein) and on the set of Lena Dunham’s Girls. She was also a production assistant on Halle Berry-led drama Extant, though both Berry and Dunham have admitted that it was tough to treat Malia accordingly.
With an Amazon writing credit under her belt fresh out of college, there’s no telling where Malia might go next. But tapping her expertise for a show about a Beyoncé-like figure, AKA a powerful, famous Black woman with a legion of devoted fans, sounds like a really smart idea.
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