'For audiences that don't know this world, it's an education, and for audiences that do know this world, it's an opportunity to see yourself reflected in a way that we haven't seen,' Diop tells BAZAAR.
, is a multifaceted woman. She’s a Senegalese immigrant who works as a nanny for the daughter of two wealthy New Yorkers . She’s a single mother, who spends much of her spare time video-chatting her son Lamine, connecting with the child through a phone screen as he stays with relatives back in Senegal. She’s a member of a close-knit West African enclave, a treasured friend, and a young woman falling in love with a New York-native named Malik .
What was your experience reading this script for the first time, especially since it's a story that has so many parallels with your own background? Definitely. I've seen my own mother work for one family for 12 years. They had three children while she worked with them, and in those 12 years she never got a raise. That never sat right with me. Every aspect of this film is very authentic. It's very real and very grounded. So for audiences that don't know this world, it's an education, and for audiences that do know this world, it's an opportunity to see yourself reflected in a way that we haven't seen.
It's funny cause we actually shot this at the height of the pandemic. This was the center of 2021, in New York at that. COVID was like looming over the set all the time, because if somebody got positive it would've really crippled the whole production. It's a heartbreaking thing as a woman in this position to not be able to be present in raising your child because you're trying to provide for that child. I personally related very much to Aisha's longing.
Nikyatu is such a collaborator. When she originally wrote the script, the character wasn't Senegalese. She was just somewhere from West Africa, and after she cast me, she made the character Senegalese, because she wanted to create an authentic story. And because of that she was also open to my suggestions about how to do that. I was really annoying, and I was like, "Well, she wouldn't do this because we don't really do that, and she would eat this because that's what we do.
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