From everything I’ve heard she is beyond spectacular in her film debut Precious so much so that there is already Oscar talk. I loved what she had to say to NY Magazine about her weight and her body. I cannot wait to see this movie.
“I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life. I love the way I look. I’m fine with it. And if my body changes, I’ll be fine with that.”
Have you seen the trailer yet?
Living the Life (NY Magazine)
Why We Love Gabourey Sidibe (Lemondrop)
This is quite a week for Hollywood and sexual violence.
Sapphire was a guest the year that I was president of the Barnard/Columbia Rape Crisis Center, the year PUSH was published. The book was so controversial, the life of Precious was so dire, people didn’t want to believe that children, just 15 blocks North of Columbia University were living that kind of life.
I was in shock when I heard PUSH was optioned and created into a film, let alone a Sundance winner. Maybe we are ready to hear these kinds of stories?
But with the free pass Roman Polanski is getting… makes me wonder.
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie so much! One of the must see movies of the year for me.
can’t wait to see what lee has done. I hope it will live up to the hype.
I can’t wait to see this movie, and I’m thrilled to read that Sidibe loves herself because I think she’s absolutely beautiful.
She’s fantastic. I found this other quote from the above New York mag interview, via The Frisky that I just love:
“[The media] try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.”