'Precious' Paid Off Gabourey Sidibe's Crunch Gym Debt

Death, Sex & Money

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The actor's first movie role didn't give her total financial security, but it did help her pay off one important bill. Become a monthly sustaining member of Death, Sex & Money. Sign up now. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter! We'll send you audio picks, letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Biggie Smalls don't even get me started.
0:03.0	Someone's like, oh, my birthday is March 5th.
0:06.0	That's close to March 9th, which is the day I got my period, which is also the day that
0:09.7	Biggie Smalls died.
0:11.0	I'm just crazy. I'm just crazy. On the day! Like I don't know why I need to tell everybody that, but I do. This is death, death, sex, and money.
0:24.0	It's just that when he was younger, he used to lie about his mother being alive.
0:28.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:32.0	What about all those condoms I got you?
0:33.6	Hmm?
0:34.1	We use.
0:34.8	And need to talk about more.
0:37.0	Gambling is not your problem.
0:39.2	I'm Anna Sale.
0:42.4	If you know Gaboré Citibay, it's probably from Precious, the 2009 movie about rape, physical abuse, and poverty in one young woman's life.
0:52.0	Gaborate was 24 when she got the role.
0:54.8	It was her first acting job,
0:56.8	and it earned her an Oscar nomination.
0:59.0	I knew that whatever Precious was going to be,
1:02.0	whatever the film was going to be, whatever the film was going to be,
1:03.2	that it was going to change my life.
1:06.1	And it had better, had changed my life for the better.
1:09.2	Like I really, really wanted that
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