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Adidas years on and off.

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Chipping away at 9 a.m.

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First gen American also, born and raised in Atlanta,

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Georgia to Sierra leonean parents.

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So I grew up in this eclectic African Southern microcosm

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and throwing up.

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My mom did a lot of domestic work,

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but in addition to other work, like she's self-publish

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and she is on the business.

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But the work that has mostly brought in income for her has been

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domestic. So caring for other people in their households

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and I had a lot of resentment,

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as someone who saw my mother, put her own dreams to the side.

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And it's always interesting when I get the question.

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Like, how did you come to the story?

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What research did you do?

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And I'm like I live this, you know,

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like this is I'm not an anthropologist.

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This is this is my life and initially I approached it as a straightforward

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drama as I continue to hone my craft at and why you grab them

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and started to Do you like literally the visible manifestation

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of these? Manny's outside these black and brown.

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Women pushing my children and strollers outside of Tish,

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every time I ran into the building.

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I wanted to incorporate some West African folklore into the American

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Horror Paradigm. And so nanny is a character study about a Senegalese

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nanny in New York City, caring for a white child and Tribeca

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that incorporates Supernatural, and and spiritual are elements

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into the film.