Donald Glover sat down with The New Yorker to talk about the genesis of “Atlanta” and what the project meant to him back in 2018. Amazingly, the actor and musician revealed that FX wanted a much safer show from him and that he tricked them into thinking that was exactly the show he was making when he pitched the series to them.
“I knew what FX wanted from me,” Glover explained. “They were thinking it’d be me and Craig Robinson horse-tailing around, and it’ll be kind of like ‘Community,’ and it’ll be on for a long time. I was Trojan-horsing FX,” the actor revealed. “If I told them what I really wanted to do, it wouldn’t have gotten made.” While this might sound like a pretty bold strategy, Glover is known for pushing creative boundaries, so FX honestly should have expected something like this.
Stephen Glover, who worked with Donald on the show, confirmed his brother’s take. “Donald promised, ‘Earn and Al work together to make it in the rough music industry. Al got famous for shooting someone and now he’s trying to deal with fame, and I’ll have a new song for him every week. Darius will be the funny one, and the gang’s going to be all together,'” Stephen recalled Donald telling him. “That was the Trojan horse.” Well, the proof is in the pudding, and with viewers and critics praising all four seasons of “Atlanta” (via Rotten Tomatoes), it would seem that Glover’s gamble paid off.
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