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Donald Glover Told by Tina Fey He Was a ‘Diversity’ Hire on ‘30 Rock’

But, he says, “There is no animosity between us or anything like that.”

Donald Glover arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party after the 95th Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, California, March 12, 2023.

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By Dan Ladden-Hall

Donald Glover says he was told by Tina Fey that he was brought onto the writing staff of 30 Rock as a “diversity” hire. Speaking about his career in an interview with GQ, Glover spoke out about the imposter syndrome he felt after being hired onto the NBC sitcom as part of a diversity initiative in 2006. “There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself… It was a diversity thing,” Glover said. “The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and [Black-ish creator] Kenya Barris.” Glover says he didn’t know he was up against Barris until later, when Barris told Glover: “I hated you for years!”

Read it at GQ

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