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Anna Diop interview: In ‘Nanny,’ one immigrant story informs another

Anna Diop arrives for the premiere of "Nanny" during the 2022 American Film Institute Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on Nov. 3, 2022.

As a little girl growing up in Houston, Anna Diop devoured rerun after rerun of a particular TV program because her mother was crazy about it. That show, Diop says now, improved her English-language facility — her family relocated from Senegal to the United States when Diop was 5 — and her mother loved its reassuringly merry depiction of the country they now called home.

She particularly loved the star of the show.

“I mean, my mother loves John Ritter,” Diop said, laughing. “‘Three’s Company’ was a huge part of our welcoming

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