“I always thought she was really funny, but also she’s very confident in the way she looks, and that’s what I prayed about,” she explained in an interview with the NY Times.
“At that time in my life, I wanted to be everybody else, but I wanted to want to be Gabby.”
Gabourey Sidibe – studies
Sidibe attended several colleges in New York before deciding to pursue a degree in psychology at Mercy College, working as a part-time receptionist to pay for tuition. One day, though, while studying for an exam, everything would change.
A friend called, saying that there was an audition for a role in Lee Daniel’s upcoming movie Precious (2009).
Gabourey Sidibe had read the book Push: A Novel on which the movie is based. She got the book from her mother and she ended up at the audition.
“I read the book, and I gave it to Gabby,” mother Alice said. “Her friends encouraged her to try out for ‘Precious,’ and she got it.”
Sidibe wasn’t sure about going to the audition, since it ment her skipping school. However, she went. And it was a success.
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Sidibe didn’t have any acting experience at that level, but she did what she did best.
