Gayle King Says Malia Obama Will Be Successful Without Famous Last Name

Gayle King says Malia Obama doesn’t need her father’s famous last name to make it in Hollywood … because her work speaks for itself.

We got Gayle in New York City on Thursday and our photog asked her about Malia dropping Obama from the credits in her movies and rolling with her first and middle names.

Malia wants people to focus on her art and not her Obama heritage.

Gayle says people already know who Malia is, but it doesn’t matter anyway because Malia has an eye for film.