Glover’s longtime collaborator and creative partner at Gilga, Fam Udeorji, who was also a producer on, added that the team ultimately wanted to support Malia in whatever she wanted to do. “Understanding somebody like Malia’s cachet means something,” he said. “But we really wanted to make sure she could make what she wanted — even if it was a slow process.”
Their approach to collaborating with Malia represents Gilga’s larger approach to filmmaking, which Udeorji said was “more about diversity of thought than just, like, diversity for optics.
“Like with Wes Anderson, there’s different rules,” Glover said, adding that the director’s work “never” makes money. “It’s not about the money. It’s because a certain group of people are like, ‘This is important.’ And I was like, ‘Are Black people at a point now where they can do that on their own?’”
That speaks to Glover’s larger vision for his production company, which he likens to producing a quality of work the way “rich kids” do. “Rich kids don’t do shit for money. They do things based on if it’s gonna make them happy. Like, that’s really what I realized this last go-around. I made a lot of money, and it wasn’t that I was depressed or anything like that, but I realized it’s the people I was around that mattered,” he said. “People don’t get quality anymore and they need a filter. Gilga is a perfect filter for that shit.”
SNL lost , this man is pure greatness with everything he touches.