It was just something that happened. People tend to be more interested in it over here than they are over there. He was my favorite character too.

Donald Glover is bringing back the cape.

Dealing with music, celebrity, race, TV, stereotypes, ambition and failure, Atlanta is prescient without being preachy—and really, at its core, it’s about a young man looking for direction; for purpose.
I wanted people to know this isn’t The Donald Glover Show at all. The colorful film serves as a parable for artistry and capitalism, but also as a visual album for Childish Gambino’s recent jams, like “This Is America,” “Feels Like Summer” and “Summertime Magic.” A charming animated intro narrated by Rihanna explains the origins of Guava Island. Like from the richest to the poorest, everyone said double. People don’t want you, people want a brand. Yeah. You get older and some of that stuff was fake. And I was aware of that early. TOP PHOTO: Donald Glover photographed exclusively for Deadline by David Vintiner at The May Fair Hotel, London. He performs music under the stage name
Donald Glover continues to grow and impress as an artist, adding the short film “Guava Island” to his already impressive resume of Grammy-winning music as Childish Gambino and his Emmy-winning show “Atlanta.”. The film’s production was mostly hush-hush. This wasn’t an event that was going to make their highlights reel of the year—it was just a thing that happened.

Not because people think it’s better. I’m very fortunate I’m able to do the things I’m able to do.

Can you see yourself directing a feature film at some point? But the question is, what are you going for?

It’s something that’s simple. It absolutely was not a point I was trying to make at all. I just have a little office and I sit at my desk and I just play around with sounds or writing. But I do think some people do take it personally. I’m, you know, the word isn’t really “fortunate” because it’s not like luck or anything, it’s just the wave of things—I’m cresting.

Brits are happy with the Queen because currently the idea of having a President seems terrifying.

Some days it’s all work, and I’ll work until two in morning, four in the morning if I’m really on a roll. He’ll play Lando Calrissian, Han Solo’s old friend and fellow space smuggler, first made famous by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back. It was sad, but life went on. Absolutely. I’m very confident in my point of view. Everybody’s looking for the adults to say this is the right kind of thing.

It would probably feel different to you than somebody who lives in Atlanta where somebody dies of a gunshot like every hour. In the episode “Nobody Beats the Biebs”, a TV presenter says to Paper Boi, “Listen, I want to give you some advice.

33 and thoughtful, he’s quick to laugh and ask questions back—perhaps pointing to a secret to his success: he’s forever inquisitive. Was this in your mind when you created Childish Gambino?

Rihanna plays Kofi Novia, a seamstress and the inspiration for her boyfriend Deni Maroon’s (Glover) music. They were written with that in mind.

It’s kind of scratching that itch for me.

And what struck me about it was that no one seemed surprised.

I just have to have the right idea. I’m never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it’s just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view. But there isn’t one thing I’d do forever. In my head I was like, “That’s going to feel different than most other things.” And I think that’s probably the most important thing to making any sort of art now. 50 years before, or 50 years after, you show it to a different group of society and it’ll hopefully taste different. Childish Gambino is about to die.. It’s still unclear what, exactly, that means. You’ve been successful commercially, but at what point did you consider yourself successful on your own terms? There are a plethora of options for him to do that. So I’m very confident in the way I see things.

You know, I have no idea.” As a species we don’t know if we just fucked up. I just wanted it to be something that was special, but also something where people could ask questions. “Black Panther” breakout actress Letitia Wright and Nonso Anozie, who “Game of Thrones” fans will recognize as Xaro Xhoan Daxos from Qarth (quite a mouthful), were also attached to the production. Read Next: Viola Davis-Starring ‘Widows’ to Hit China Theaters Oct. 16, Buy Variety’s BTS Special Edition, Physically or Digitally, Dr. Fauci Calls Out ‘Outlandish’ Fox News Reporting on Coronavirus Pandemic, Trump’s Tax Returns Reveal Struggling Businesses but Big Windfall From ‘The Apprentice’, combines its art with socio-political symbolism, 'The Masked Singer' Shocker: Here’s the Identity of Gremlin, Who Yanked His Own Mask Off, ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Takes on Coronavirus and Pence, How BTS and Its ARMY Could Change the Music Industry, Grammys 2021: Who’ll Get Nods in Top 4 Categories? So I think it’s about the company you keep. Hopefully if you’re making art it is personal on some level.

So I think it just forces you to see yourself a little smaller. Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (born September 25, 1983) is an American actor, singer, rapper, comedian, writer, producer, and director.



I think most people live in the land of good intentions, rather than the land of what is actually happening and what they’re actually doing.

Deadline talks with him on an unfeasibly sunny day in London, where he is shooting Disney’s untitled Han Solo pic, the second in the Star Wars anthology series of side-stories, after Rogue One. He’s Jennifer Lopez having the number-one movie (The Wedding Planner) and number-one album (J.Lo) at the same time, plus two. His name isn’t in the title of the movie, but everyone knows Lando is the real star. A true artist till the end, Deni disobeys Red’s threats to stop playing music and holds a festival for the island’s workers. That’s why I like making things, because you need that a little bit to go on.

Amazon Prime Video released a short teaser last week showing Glover and Rihanna dancing in radiant beach outfits to drum beats. I think even Han isn’t as complicated as Lando is.

Once that idea came into play, that’s when I started thinking this could be cool. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. Solo is Glover’s biggest theatrical role to date (no offense, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), and will be until he voices Simba in The Lion King remake. Can A ‘Low Contact’ Road Trip Still Capture The Joy Of Travel? It’s this weird, big, giant Ouija board. Britain is really particular about its history.

It’s hard to act like your back isn’t against the wall when it is. For working under, like, a huge conglomerate, it’s actually been quite an enjoyable, artistic thing. Is that the way things are or a conscious decision to not overly engage with that stuff? He can really do it on his own if he wanted to, if he wanted to self-finance, if he wanted money from someone else, if he wanted to shoot it on his own, if he wanted to shoot through a studio. “I go here for that.” The internet has made that quite clear to me, too.

Music, As pointed out by our own Derrick Rossignol, “Since Yeezy Season lasted a total of maybe a week before it blew up in Kanye’s face, it looks like it’s now Gambino Season.” It’s actually been Gambino Season since December 2, 2016, when Glover released “Awaken, My Love!,” a soulful throwback that was nominated for five Grammys and spawned a hit single, “Redbone.” It was his first taste of near-universal musical acclaim (feel free to revisit Pitchfork‘s infamous Camp review, or maybe don’t), and the accolades continued with the first singles from his next (and last?)

I think sometimes you just need like a pair of shades in order to keep going. Yeah.

Right.