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Monday, 09 November 2009 08:00
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe was standing on a subway platform in Harlem one Monday in September two years ago, trying to decide: uptown or downtown?
Her friend had mentioned an open-call audition for a movie. The description: African American female, age 18 to 25, plus-size. That was her, and that was the uptown train.
Downtown was her psych class at Mercy College.
Sidibe, who had taken theater classes and been in a few school plays but in no way thought herself an actress, opted for the uptown train anyway.
Her life would never be the same.
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