LOS ANGELES - She has Been nominated for an Oscar, hosted Saturday Night Live and shared a stage with Oprah Winfrey.
But "when it Came to Trade Barbs time with Laura Linney in Showtime's latest twisted dramedy Suburbanite, The Big C, Gabourey Sidibé found herself in an unusual position: playing the student.
"I never got the chance to go Thurs acting class and so every scene That I'm in with her, I just watch her like a total freak," said Sidibé, noting Linney's status as an Emmy-and Golden Globe-winning actress. "I try to Be as good as people say I am and I know it's weird, but i try to Be good for her, you know? Because she's, like, an amazing actress and I Do not Want To mess up her scene. "
Sidibé needn't worry. Turns out her character, acerbic high school student Andrea, gives the show's first episode one, investigation of its best scenes pushing Linney's exasperated high school teacher Cathy Jamison Delivering the most passion put down for months Devastating instructor ever Laid Wayward is a pupil.
"You can not be fat and mean," Linney's Jamison snaps on one too many insults from Sidibé's Andrea, an over weight Coffee Ken admits Trying every diet known Thurs Mankind (later, the teacher will offer her student $ 100 for every pound she loses) . "Fat people are jolly for a reason. Fat repels people, but their joy attracts truth. So You Can either be fat and jolly or a skinny b -, it's up to you. "
Only the viewer knows the real reason why Linney's character is so free with sharp opinions; Jamison's Been Told by her doctor That she has an advanced skin cancer and Less than two years left to live.
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