Speaking to Teen Vogue in September 2021, Natalia Bryant shared that she’ll be majoring in film at the University of Southern California. Prior to landing a place at the university, Bryant went to two private schools outside of Los Angeles including Sage Hill High School. “Growing up, my parents made it as normal as possible,” Bryant explained. “Thank God they did. It’s not ‘Oh she’s Natalia Bryant, she’s Kobe Bryant’s daughter.’ A lot of the times they saw me as ‘She’s just Nani.'”
And as for her love of film, that also stems from time spent with her dad. “My dad and I would always watch as many movies as we can and we’d go on movie marathons,” Bryant told E! News, adding “and then we’d analyse as many movie as we can and we’d talk about it for months. Anywhere we’d go we’d just keep talking about different films and how it, like, reminds us of where we are.”
That shared love of filmmaking was the catalyst for Bryant’s decision to major in the subject. “It’s just things like that, it just really inspired me and I was like, ‘I want to do this forever.'”
