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Malia Obama’s future in Hollywood is bright.
SwarmstarDominique Fishbackrecalled working with the budding screenwriter onDonald Gloverand Janine Nabers’s Amazon Prime Video series during an interview withE! News, raving that Obama, 24, is “so intelligent” and “so cool.”
“When we did the mall scene in the first episode, she was there for a while,” said Fishback. “We got to talk. We plan on meeting up and chatting and continuing to build our relationship.”
She also hopes to collaborate again, adding: “I just want to know what she wants to do next. Maybe we can do something together.”
Glover, 39, announced earlier this month that he’s helping Malia, the oldest daughter ofBarack ObamaandMichelle Obama,develop her first short filmunder his Gilga production banner.
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“The first thing we did was talk about the fact that she will only get to do this once,” recalled Glover toGQ, noting that he told her: “You’re Obama’s daughter. So if you make a bad film, it will follow you around.”
The Golden Globe winner previously praised Obama’s talent in an interview withVanity Fairafter tapping her to share her experiences forSwarm. “She’s just like, an amazingly talented person,” he said last March. “She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard.”
Nabers said she wanted Obama “to get her feet wet” in the writers' room after she previously interned onLena Dunham’sGirlsand for theWeinstein Company, in addition to working as a production assistant onHalle Berry’s CBS sci-fi drama seriesExtant.
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“[The main characters of the show] are in their 20s and Malia is in her 20s, so it was really great having someone like her in the room,” Nabers said, adding: “She’s a very professional person. She’s an incredible writer and artist.”
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Swarm, which is now streaming on Prime Video, stars Fishback as Dre, a Houston-based fan whose obsession with aBeyoncé-esque pop star leads her down a dark and dangerous spiral.
source: people.com
