Donald Glover: Tina Fey told me I was a ‘diversity’ hire on ‘30 Rock’
nypost.comtold GQ in April’s cover story. “There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself.”“The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.
I didn’t know it was between me and him until later,” he added.He told the magazine that the “Black-ish” creator said he “hated” Glover “for years.”Glover wrote for the Emmy Award-winning show for three years.“It definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there,” the “This is America” singer said.“I used to have stress dreams every night where I was doing cartwheels on the top of a New York skyscraper with the other writers watching me.”The Post has reached out to Fey’s reps for comment.The “Redbone” hitmaker previously opened up about his experience of working on the hit sitcom.In a 2018 New Yorker profile, the entertainer said he began to wonder if he was “being hired just because I’m black.”According to the outlet, Fey confirmed that “the answer was in large part yes; she admired Glover’s talent but hired him because funds from NBC’s Diversity Initiative ‘made him free.'”“30 Rock” ran from Oct.
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