Malala Takes Her Passions To The Small Screen With Apple

Malala Yousafzai is a Nobel laureate known around the world for her activism, but she’s also a cartoon fan, and is taking her love of television and film to Apple TV+.

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Yousafzai, 23, who graduated from Oxford last June, announced this week that she has partnered with Apple in a multi-year deal to develop dramas, documentaries, comedies, animation and series for kids.

Yousafzai was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2014, for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor. In her home country, Pakistan, she was outspoken in insisting that girls have a right to an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while riding a school bus at age 15.

She recovered and went on to fight against girls’ oppression worldwide.

In an interview, Yousafzai talked about her love of cartoons as an escape, how she stays hopeful in a sometimes bleak world, and how she will mark Monday’s International Women’s Day.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Q: Your new deal with Apple includes comedy and animated shows. Are you a comedy fan?