Don’t call it Obama. Malia, the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, decided to leave her famous last name in her professional life. The one who begins a career in the film community has chosen to be called Malia Ann, using his second name as a surname. A decision to which her mother, the former American first lady, reacted for the first time this week in the American podcast Juerga brothers.
“Malia, who embarked on the cinema, has retired his last name,” he said, while Rac News relieves. “We said: ‘People will still know that it is you, Malia.’ But we respect the fact that she is trying to track her path.”
Obama’s couple had two daughters: Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23. “It is very important that our daughters have the feeling that they have deserved what they manage
Promising beginnings
Malia Obama obtained a Harvard diploma in 2021. Since then, he has used the name of Malia Ann in all her projects. First the Prime Videos Series SwarmCreated by actor and rapper Donald Glover, in which he officiated as a Coscenista. In 2023, she made her first short film, The heartwithin the production house of the latter. The film was presented to the prestigious Sunday festival in January 2024 and won the award for the new generation at the Deauville Festival the following summer.
As MSNBC reports, the young woman also made a Nike ad with the basketball player A’JA Wilson.
Barack Obama had already mentioned this decision of the young woman last October, in the podcast The pivot podcast:
“His first film was in Sundance, and all these prestigious festivals, and did not use Obama as director in the credits.”
“I said:” You know people will know who you are. “She replied:” You know what? I want you to see (the movie) the first time without being able to do the slightest association. “So I think our girls make efforts not to take advantage (of their name).”
Source: BFM TV
