Personal experience made 'Moolaade' role difficult

CHAMPAIGN – Portraying an African woman who opposes female genital mutilation was difficult for actress Fatoumata Coulibaly, a practicing Muslim who herself underwent the excision when she was a young girl.

One of the hardest scenes for her in "Moolaade," shown Thursday at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, was the partial nude scene in which her character, Colle, has sex with her husband.

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