Mbissine Thérèse Diop

[Lauren Backus on Mbissine Thérèse Diop]: The actress reveals Sembene found her through a photograph, and that as a seamstress by trade (and for the rest of her life—Black Girl was her first and last film before appearing in a documentary about Sembene just last year), Diop sewed all of her costumes worn in the film, but one.