Donald Glover claims Tina Fey told him he was only hired as part of the “diversity initiative” of NBC.
The “This is America” rapper and actor joined NBC’s sitcom 30 Rock as a writer in 2006, at age 23, when he was still living in a dorm in New York City and working as a resident assistant in Goddard.
He told GQ in an interview published on Tuesday that Tina Fey, the creator of 30 Rock told him, he was being hired as part of the “Diversity Thing” of NBC.
“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,” he said. “I didn’t know it was between me and him until later.”
“Childish Gambino,” Glover said the Black-ish creator “hit me one day and he was like, ‘I hated you for years’”.
“It definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there.”
Glover opened up about his experience as a writer on the 30 Rock team, “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.”
